War Memoirs 35 69138 BLITZ SPIRIT:


Bravery, Patriotism, Humour by Jaqueline Mitchell As the German bombs began to rain down on London and many other British cities in September 1940, homes were flattened and people emerged from cramped shelters after sleepless nights into barely recognisable surroundings. This witty, uplifting and unputdownable volume comprises 40 extracts from sources as varied


as Churchill himself, government information leaflets, ARP and Home Guard personnel, Noel Coward, A.P. Herbert, military top brass and most importantly and numerous, members of the civilian population. Colour and b/w photos, 208pp. £9.99 NOW £3.50


69148 LIFE’S TOO SHORT TO CRY: The


Compelling Story of a Battle of Britain Ace by Tim Vigors DFC


1940 found Tim Vigors flying Spitfires over Dunkirk in support of the evacuations and the following year in the Battle of Britain, during which he became an ace. As Hitler shelved his immediate invasion plans, Vigors was transferred to the Far East theatre. Now a Flight Commander, on 10 December 1941 he led his squadron of Brewster Buffalos to defend the men of the stricken Prince of Wales and Repulse off Malaya, who were coming under intense Japanese fire. He soon found out how misplaced his arrogance was as the enemy promptly blew his fuel tank out from under him. Miraculously surviving he was rescued and transported to hospital by two Malay civilians, which is where his diary ended. 320pp with b/w photos. £12.99 NOW £5


69071 I AM SOLDIER: War Stories from the Ancient


World to the 20th Century edited by Professor Robert O’Neill


70 soldiers whose lives span 2,500 years. Each tale covers the soldiers’ earlier lives and training, and how the experience of battle affected them. Here are Aristodemos, who survived Thermopylae, and Konstantin


Mihailovic, a Serbian who fought as a janissary for the Ottomans against Vlad Dracula of Wallachia. Here, too, are John Young, an infantry squad leader with the 9th Division during the Vietnam War, whose experiences in the Mekong Delta left him with PTSD, and Deneys Reitz, who was shocked by the indignity of death in the Boer War. 224 softback pages, colour and b/w photos. £14.99 NOW £3.50


69745 SMALL MIRACLES OF THE HOLOCAUST


by Yitta Halberstam and Judith Leventhal Love Among the Ruins is a love story about a girl who saved a dying man during the Holocaust. An Oscar for Oskar is about the coincidence that brought Oskar Schindler’s story to the attention of Thomas Keneally and Steven Spielberg. Here are 46 true, inspirational stories that are unique in the pantheon of Holocaust literature. These uplifting twists of fate or ‘extraordinary coincidences’ show how the human spirit and faith somehow endured because of a chance occurrence at just the right moment. How do you explain the story of a man fleeing the Nazis, escaping deep into a dense forest he had never crossed before, knocking on a random cabin door and coming face to face with a gentile whose life he had saved years before? 272pp. $19.95 NOW £5


70119 THE BANTAMS by Sidney Allinson A bantam is a small kind of domestic fowl, of which the cockerel is very pugnacious. It can also mean a small but spirited person, and perfectly describes, in both its meanings, the men of the British Bantam battalions, who were all barely over five feet in height but were more than equal to any other soldier in aggression and bravery.


Eventually, there were over 20 Bantam battalions plus two from Canada. Canadian military historian Sidney Allinson’s researches took him to Britain, Canada, the USA and the old battlefields of Flanders. He contacted over 300 survivors and gathered the many first-hand accounts of battle revealed in this stirring book. English and Scottish Bantams fought along the Somme, while Welsh bantams, despite hideous casualties, helped win the Battle of Bourlon. Meanwhile, soldiers from Toronto and Vancouver served with distinction at Vimy Ridge. 312 pages illus. £19.99 NOW £7


69860 STRANGERLAND: A Family at War by Helena Drysdale


In 1834, Isabella Campbell left England for India and within two weeks of joining her brother, had married his best friend, a dashing cavalry officer named Charles Gascoyne. 20 years and nine children later, Charles decreed the family should leave India for a nascent British colony on the other side of the world - New Zealand. He went ahead with the children and their governess. Isabella, who was unwell, returned to England. On landing in New Zealand a year later, she found herself ousted by the governess, rejected by her children and her once-beloved husband. While battle clouds amassed over the Gascoyne family, so New Zealand disintegrated into war between British settlers


and the Maori. When the Gascoynes were joined by their nephew Bamber, more terror lay in store. 396pp in paperback, colour illus. £8.99 NOW £3.25


70121 BLITZ BOY: An


Evacuee’s Story by Alf Townsend


A charismatic author recollects life in the Blitz and his evacuation to Cornwall. Many of the foster parents did so purely for the cash - 8s 3d per week, equivalent to about 41 pence today! The family which took in Alf treated him appallingly. The foster-mother thought nothing of mistreating a six-year-old child,


beating and punishing him. His misery ended only when his real mother reclaimed him. She and his siblings remained in Cornwall with him until the end of the war. Then, of course, they had the shock of returning to a London in which, in some cases, whole streets had been destroyed and huge areas totally flattened. Alf, though, remembers this time with much fondness. The story is rounded off with a return to Cornwall. 115 paperback pages, illus.


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70255 BRINGING UNCLE ALBERT HOME: A Soldier’s


Tale by David P. Whithorn Private Albert Turley was just an ordinary British soldier of the First World War. He died on the Somme for King and Country. He didn’t win any medals for gallantry and has no known grave. Like thousands of soldiers whose names fill local war memorials the length of the country, he left neither letters nor diaries from which to reconstruct his stories.


This is the story of one man’s search for his distant relative, describing Private Turley’s active service with the 3rd Battalion at the Worcestershire Regiment. Whithorn’s painstaking reconstruction of Albert’s story from surviving records and histories led to a pilgrimage following his footsteps to the Somme hillside where he fell in August 1916. What sets this book apart is its dual function as a tightly focussed history of the 3rd Worcestershires and a detective story. A must for genealogists tracing their own relative’s war service and a most moving memorial to them all. 234pp in paperback with 16 pages of photos and maps. £8.99 NOW £4


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