Jenny's wartime memories were of a bleak childhood blighted by her father's absence in the British Liberation Army. In stark, unfair contrast, her husband Paul's top wartime memory was of the ducks laying their eggs in his father's tin hat. Home Guard duties were zilch in the peaceful Northumbrian hamlet where he was the minister.
Why did his father ditch a promising science career for the ministry in that remote spot? Many years later painstaking research revealed the amazing answer to Paul's boyhood question.
Follow Jenny as she retraces her father's and Paul's father's footsteps - starting with her father's journey from the Normandy Landings to the Liberation of Europe, to her father-in-law's hair's breadth avoidance of the Nazi nuclear physics machine, ending with a journey back in time, taking in two famous battles, to Paul's ancestor, Walcher, made Bishop of Durham by William the Conqueror in 1071.
Sales proceeds to be donated to the Royal British Legion.
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Jenny Martin's second historical work follows in the footsteps of the brave men and women involved in twentieth century conflict.
`The pity of war is visited afresh, with an insight reflecting the author's grasp of the poetic. Thoughts on the French Resistance blend with moving memories of the friendship forged between her father and a Dutch family. All in all, a journey worth spending with Jenny.'- J. P., Judge and writer | `This book by the author of Mining Memories, runner up in the Arts and Literature section of the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year Awards, is a chronicle of war from - unusually - the perspective of ordinary people. An in-depth and emotive, yet easy and entertaining read.'- P.P., proof reader and English teacher
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781781327968
Publisert
2018-08-04
Utgiver
Vendor
SilverWood Books Ltd
Høyde
203 mm
Bredde
133 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
144
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