Negotiations are underway with a Greek publisher for the Greek translation of Australian radio and TV host and writer Phil Kafcaloudes’ gripping novel, Someone Else’s War.

The book was officially launched in August by the former NSW Premier Bob Carr. On this 70th anniversary of the Greek invasion by the Nazis, Mr Carr told the group at Dymocks bookstore in Sydney that the war led to a huge influx of Greek migrants, and that Australia was a greater country because of their presence in the community.

Someone Else’s War tells the story of the author’s courageous maternal grandmother, Olga Stambolis, a reluctant spy and British agent in World War Two.

In 1936 Olga Stambolis was a Sydney mother and wife. She disappears in mysterious circumstances, turning up in Athens. There her skills as an actress and multi-linguist attract the British foreign office, who train her to be part of the resistance against the Nazi invasion of Greece.

Stambolis finds herself sabotaging, spying and rescuing Australian and New Zealand airmen. Meanwhile in Australia, her family, who now believe her dead, are facing their own wartime challenges. They are caught in Darwin as Japan prepares to bomb the town. Through the entwined stories of mother and daughters, readers are taken into the true events of two countries and two sets of lives from 1916 to 1943.

Phil Kafcaloudes says he is thrilled that the book may soon be available in Greece in the Greek language: "This is a story that will have great potency for Greek people. They worked with my grandmother, and together they risked their lives against the Nazis. It is now many years on, but it can never be too late to tell a story of Greek heroism against such a powerful foe."

The book is now available in bookstores around Australia, and online as an ebook.

For more information: www.someoneelseswar.info