Letters from a Lancaster Gunner - Couverture rigide

Thompson, Joseph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1781556989 ISBN 13 : 9781781556986

Editeur : Fonthill Media Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

Flight Lieutenant Joseph Thompson, aka 'Mac', left his mother's small Birmingham home in December 1943 at the age of 18 to join the wartime RAF. This book follows his journey through the hardship and adventure of basic & gunnery training, a love affair with a girl from Liverpool, crew friendships, losses and disasters, over 20 Lancaster bombing raids, a virgin mission which ends in a 'ditching' in the North Sea, and a postwar stint in Singapore.

Joe's original letters and his mother's replies are the narrators of this story, which begins and ends with the events surrounding their rediscovery some 65 years after they were written. The wartime experiences of the family Joe left behind, also unfold. A mother, widowed in 1941, struggling to cope physically, financially and emotionally with four children during wartime, while working full time in a factory. There is much love, detail and hardship in these letters, which ultimately end with heartbreak that could not have been foreseen.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Helen Thompson lives in North Yorkshire with her large family, where she works as a photographer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fonthill Media Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781556989
• ISBN 13: 9781781556986
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Thompson Helen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible