Keep smiling through : my wartime story /
by Lynn, Vera; Lewis-Jones, Virginia.
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BookPublisher: London : Century, 2017Description: 286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781780898346 (hbk.) :; 1780898347 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 940.5425 LYNSubject(s): Lynn, Vera | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma | Warfare and Defence | Warfare and DefenceSummary: 'I was just 27 years old when I went to Burma. It was an experience that changed my life forever. 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.' And she did. Written with her daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, this is a powerful and life-affirming account of the time Dame Vera Lynn spent with troops in wartime Burma. Based in part on a diary she kept, this book shows how her presence helped the soldiers, airmen and others who heard her sing.
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| 940.5423 SAD El Alamein 1942: | 940.5423 STR The phantom army of Alamein: how Operation Bertram and the Camouflage Unit hoodwinked Rommel | 940.5425 HOL Burma '44 : the battle that turned the war in the Far East | 940.5425 LYN Keep smiling through : | 940.5425 MCL The Burma campaign: disaster into triumph, 1942-45 | 940.5425 MOY Jungle soldier: the true story of Freddy Spencer Chapman | 940.5426 AMB The Pacific |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
'I was just 27 years old when I went to Burma. It was an experience that changed my life forever. 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.' And she did. Written with her daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, this is a powerful and life-affirming account of the time Dame Vera Lynn spent with troops in wartime Burma. Based in part on a diary she kept, this book shows how her presence helped the soldiers, airmen and others who heard her sing.
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