One Family's War
A History of one family's experiences in World War II
Sheila Wright
206 B & W photographs and illustrations, 5 maps and plans. Published by Kisumu Books, September 2009.
Price: £ 12.99
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This book holds a treasure trove of wartime experiences. Based on the family of Percy Childs and Daisy Austin, the pages record “primary sources” - personal diaries of life in the forces, Despatches from the Front, the battlefield War Diary of an Artillery Troop, letters home from Pilot Training Camp and the war zone – plus memories from civilians who lived through the years 1939-45. The reader is transported into an era of chaos and uncertainty when British lives were hi-jacked by war.
Sheila Wright M.A. (née Jones) was born in 1939. Educated at Wyggeston School in Leicester, Bretton Hall in Yorkshire and the U.E.A. in Norwich, she taught in many village schools (almost half of them Church of England Controlled Schools), first in Hertfordshire, then in Suffolk. She is married to Ron, a music teacher and band master.
Sheila is a Lay Reader in the Church of England. Her hobbies include music, drawing and painting, gardening, keeping poultry, escapism in the French countryside, and enjoying the company of her children and twelve grandchildren.
She has described her experience in France in her earlier book Bon Courage, Mes Amis! which we published in May 2002. It is obviously such a good title as another publisher subsequently produced a book with the identical title, with which it shouldn't be confused!