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Linda West, who compiled her father's book 'My Darling Wife', recently appeared on the BBC Radio 4 Home Truths Programme to talk about the collection of songs her father wrote during his period in various Japanese prisoner of war camps and the book she has edited and published through us, that was the collection of letters home to her mother and diaries kept by her father whilst he was in the army.

Linda's father, Harry Berry died earlier this year at the age of 87. Whilst sorting through 100s of his old tape recordings of jazz she discovered recordings her dad had made, self accompanied on the organ in his mid 70s, of songs he'd written during his time as a POW. She also found 100s of letters and diaries he'd written from 1940-45 to her mother, Gwen. She also has a Christmas card to her mother smuggled out by a Japanese Priest in 1944.

Listen to the Radio 4 article on this fascinating item of history, and click on the book image read the synopsis, sample and buy the book