Series: Reminiscence

This title is a study of leadership in action. The author, a retired RAF fighter pilot, is outspoken about the courage, fear, team spirit and motivation that he and his comrades shared throughout the war. Laden with different perspectives, he explores elements of airpower.

This is the story of a 19 year old who joined the FANY then trained as a radar mechanic during the Second World War. Marjorie Inkster offers lively descriptions of the gun sites, the people working on them and in the Officers' Mess, of daily work practices, air raids and the history of the fast d...

This is the story of a 19 year old who joined the FANY then trained as a radar mechanic during the Second World War. Marjorie Inkster offers lively descriptions of the gun sites, the people working on them and in the Officers' Mess, of daily work practices, air raids and the history of the fast d...

David James was a naval prisoner of war who eventually made a 'home run'. This book covers his capture, interrogation, camp life, various escape attempts and his experiences 'on the run'.

David James was a naval prisoner of war who eventually made a 'home run'. This book covers his capture, interrogation, camp life, various escape attempts and his experiences 'on the run'.

Bryan Kelly was born in 1931. His father was a docker, and he and his seven brothers and sisters grew up in a tiny terraced house in Anfield. Although life for Bryan and his family was hard, he recalls his time growing up with great fondness.

'Friends and Neighbours' is a memoir of growing up on a farm in Monmouthshire between the wars. In those days children walked to school and mucked out the stables before they set off. Amusements were homemade and life revolved around the farming calendar.

Sonia Kurta presents a humorous account of a farming life that starts in the late 1930s and ends in the early 1950s. Bringing to life the varied characters with whom Sonia has worked, both people and animals, this text gives a detailed view of what life was like for a farm worker in the last days...

Pat Lacey grew up in Abergavenny in the years leading up to the Second World War. Her first job was as a telegraphist and the desire to sign up when war broke out eventually saw her assigned to the WAAF as a teleprinter at RAF Benson. Here, Pat shares her war years and how they directly affected ...

This is the story of Thomas Lancashire who joined the RAF in 1936 and became one of the famous 'Trenchard Brats' at RAF Halton to be educated and learn the trade of fitter.

Joyce Latham, who died in 2007, was well-known in the Forest of Dean for her verses, which often appeared in local newspapers and have been published in two collections, 'Puzzle Wood and Other Poems' and 'Poems of a Forester'. This book presents a memoir of her childhood.

Joyce Latham, who died in 2007, was well-known in the Forest of Dean for her verses, which often appeared in local newspapers and have been published in two collections, 'Puzzle Wood and Other Poems' and 'Poems of a Forester'. This book presents a memoir of her childhood.

A true story of romance and escape during World War II. John McCallum spent four years in POW camps. During two of these years, he habitually broke out of camp in the Sudetenland in order to court a German girl called Traudl, sneaking back in before morning roll call. Eventually he made a success...

A tongue-in-cheek tale based on the author's 15-year stint as a postman. By turns humorous and disrespectful, the author takes us on a journey into the world of the Royal Mail, introducing us to the eccentricities of its arcane working practices, its employees, its customers and their dogs.

John Alexander MacKenzie recollects his childhood in a West Coast fishing village between the wars. He writes of schooldays, children's entertainments, Sunday School picnics, Mallaig and the railway, early motoring, the Big Pier, herring fishing and the Wee Pier.

'In The Shelter Of Each Other' is a collection of childhood reminiscences of Liverpool from the 1930s and '40s.

With a single daring leap from an Italian train carrying prisoners of war, John Miller jumped into the war as lived by civilians. It was 1943 and Italian anti-fascists harboured and fed him. For months he dodged German patrols and the secret police, until the Allied liberation of Rome brought fre...

This is the story of how as a young man, John Moffat experienced first-hand the titanic struggle for naval supremacy, the cramped-cabins and meagre rations of WW2, the mind-numbing patrols over hundreds of miles of ocean and the adrenalin and fear of being in a fragile aircraft sought out by gunf...

May O'Brien was 15 in 1947 when she started to work in Liberty Hall, the dark and down-at-heel union headquarters that sat brooding beside the River Liffey. An entertaining account of one woman's experience, it is also a valuable social document, revealing the realities of life for working-class ...

As the child of a family running a busy village shop, the author developed the ability to be a 'fly on the wall', watching, listening and establishing lasting memories. Here, she has drawn up a very special picture of life in the Worcestershire village of Ombersley during the 1940s.