Keep smiling through : my wartime story /
Lynn, Vera,
Keep smiling through : my wartime story / Vera Lynn with Virginia Lewis-Jones. - Leicester : Charnwood, 2018. - 288 pages (large print) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Standard print edition originally published: London: Century, 2017.
'I WAS JUST TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OLD WHEN I WENT TO BURMA. IT WAS AN EXPERIENCE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE FOR EVER. UP UNTIL THAT TIME, I HAD NOT REALLY TRAVELLED ANYWHERE AT ALL, APART FROM ONE TOURING VISIT TO HOLLAND WITH A BAND I WAS SINGING WITH BEFORE THE WAR, AND I HAD CERTAINLY NEVER BEEN IN AN AEROPLANE. BUT I WANTED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, TO DO MY BIT.' Written with her daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, this is the story of the time Vera Lynn spent with troops in wartime Burma. Based in part on a diary she kept, alongside unpublished personal letters and photographs from surviving veterans and their families, it explores why this was such a life-defining event for her, and how her presence helped the people who heard her sing.
9781444838961 (hbk.) : 20.99
Lynn, Vera.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Burma.
Large type books.
Warfare and Defence.
European history
Autobiography: general
D767.6
940.5425 LYN
Keep smiling through : my wartime story / Vera Lynn with Virginia Lewis-Jones. - Leicester : Charnwood, 2018. - 288 pages (large print) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Standard print edition originally published: London: Century, 2017.
'I WAS JUST TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OLD WHEN I WENT TO BURMA. IT WAS AN EXPERIENCE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE FOR EVER. UP UNTIL THAT TIME, I HAD NOT REALLY TRAVELLED ANYWHERE AT ALL, APART FROM ONE TOURING VISIT TO HOLLAND WITH A BAND I WAS SINGING WITH BEFORE THE WAR, AND I HAD CERTAINLY NEVER BEEN IN AN AEROPLANE. BUT I WANTED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, TO DO MY BIT.' Written with her daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, this is the story of the time Vera Lynn spent with troops in wartime Burma. Based in part on a diary she kept, alongside unpublished personal letters and photographs from surviving veterans and their families, it explores why this was such a life-defining event for her, and how her presence helped the people who heard her sing.
9781444838961 (hbk.) : 20.99
Lynn, Vera.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Burma.
Large type books.
Warfare and Defence.
European history
Autobiography: general
D767.6
940.5425 LYN