Talks, signings, interviews and reviews for Maude and Written on the Knee, from the books' launches onward.
Nicholas Gage — author of Eleni, and an Executive Producer of The Godfather Part III, which he co-wrote an early draft of with Mario Puzo — calls the diary “as raw and wrenching an account of trench warfare as I have ever read,” and “essentially an uplifting story because what keeps him going is his love for his wife and his determination to survive and return to her.” Read the full endorsement.
Jay Morgan profiles Helen and Maude for the Sun Sailor — the friendship that began behind a Dinkytown door, the coffee and the recipes and the attic full of photographs, and the visits two and three times a week that continued until Maude Hart died at eighty. "She always said don't forget me," Helen tells him, "and I'd say I won't forget you." The book is the keeping of that promise. Read the article at hometownsource.com.
Helen presents Written on the Knee — a Diary from the Greek-Italian Front of WWII to the Bloomington Rotary Club.
A presentation on the diary and Greece's role in World War II, hosted in Dayton, Ohio.
The book was featured on the Book Beat television segment, July 19, 2015.
Helen discusses her father's diary on Twin Cities television.
The Wayzata Sun Sailor profiled Helen and the diary in its May 21, 2015 edition. Read the article (PDF).
Helen presented the book at the Ianos bookstore in Athens.
Written on the Knee reviewed in the Athens News.
The book was featured in the premiere issue of Anatolia magazine, published by Anatolia College in Thessaloniki — Helen's alma mater.
Book signing at R. Jackson's in Palm Beach, Florida.
Author discussion and signing at Barnes & Noble stores in Phoenix, Tempe and Scottsdale, Arizona.
Written on the Knee reviewed in Athens Plus.
Book reading at Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Minneapolis.
Written on the Knee was introduced in London at the Hellenic Centre on OXI Day 2008 — the anniversary of Greece's defiant "No" to Mussolini in 1940.
Documentary videos on Greece's often-overlooked role in the Second World War — the historical backdrop of Written on the Knee.
Το Αθάνατο Έπος ("The Immortal Epic"), in two parts.