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Sep 23rd 2009

We commemorate the 70th anniversary of the beginning of World War II in Europe with some of our authors' books giving fascinating first hand accounts of those dark days. From being evacuees to the countryside, escapees from Nazi occupied France, soldiers in training, to fighting battles in Europe, they give a deep insight into the attitude and resolve of the times.

	Once Upon A Wartime by Edward Gordon This is the story of a family in the industrial heartland of Britain whose life is profoundly altered by an event of war, and of the others that play a part in the lives of the members of the family, and who share a common goal of survival in dangerous times.
	Once a Hussar by Ray Ellis is a true account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis. As an impressionable teenager, fired with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country. He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of World War II and began a journey which would take him through fierce fighting in the Western Desert, an Italian prisoner of war camp and a daring escape to join the partisan forces in the Apennines.
	Moggie Grows Up by Margaret Gail A retired teacher of commercial subjects, Margaret Gail was a nine-year-old evacuee in September 1939. Based on personal experience and understanding of what was happening around her at the time, Margaret Gail tells us what life was like for someone growing up during World War II. Each chapter introduces a different aspect of life on the Home Front from 1939 to 1945,
	Journey into Freedom by Peter Hart An authentic war-time story of the years 1939-1947 which finds the author, a Jew on the run from his native Germany, in France at the outbreak of war. First interned as an ‘Enemy Alien’, then taken prisoner by the Germans after the invasion, he resolves to reach England, which takes him another three years.
	Led Soldiers by Doug Mayman This book is a contemporaneous account of the wartime experiences of a trooper and NCO in the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars. Part 1 covers the period from his conscription into the Army in September 1942, his induction, his assignment to Royal Hussars and his training as a tank wireless operator.

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