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Never Forget : Six Unforgettable True Stories From World Warii
Paperback Edition: 1
"Never Forget is the result of several years work, and is very close to my heart. It features some dear, wonderful people, who have been so generous and brave in sharing their memories and stories of World War II with me. The trust they have shown in me has been truly humbling.
This book highlights the effect of war on ordinary citizens, who either made the decision to fight, or whose lives were completely turned upside down by its impact. In another generation, the people who lived through these terrible events may no longer be here to tell their stories, which is why it was so important to me to capture just a few of them in this book."
Theres Bram, a young boy whose privileged childhood in the Dutch East Indies was lost forever when the Japanese invaded and his father became a prisoner-of-war on the infamous Pekanbaru Death Railway.
Harry, a soldier in the 2nd New Zealand Divisional Cavalry, who survived relentless action on the battlefields of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East with just one tiny nick to his ear, but whose emotional wounds would prove far greater to heal.
Eva, a young girl in Rotterdam, who witnessed many atrocities under the German occupation of the city, and discovered after the war, she had inadvertently delivered messages for the Resistance.
The six We?grzyn children, who were ripped from their happy life in Poland, endured the loss of their parents, and suffered terrible conditions and near starvation in forced labour camps in Russia.
Naylor, who was almost 100 years old before he told his family about his wartime service with one of British Prime Minister Winston Churchills top-secret RAF Moonlight Squadrons, flying agents and supplies behind enemy lines.
And Ronnie, whose tough wartime childhood in the slums of Newcastle upon Tyne, led to him becoming part of a destructive street gang, and ultimately being sent to Australia as a child migrant.
Pages : 304
Publisher : Independently Published
Publication date : 2018
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in New Zealand, Humanities, New Zealand, History, NZ History, Second World War