HoneyGirl Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 (edited) Here is my list of books which are yet to be read. I've been collecting these books over this year and still have many more on my wishlist so I shall be adding to this list when I get more books. Dear Joan: Love letters from the Second World War by Tony Ross Nurse on Call by Edith Cotterill The day we went to War by Terry Charman Now then Lad by Mike Pannet Tunnelling to Freedom by John Fancy The Last Escape by by John Nichol and Tony Rennell From Churchill's War Rooms by Joanna Moody The Road to Nab End by William Woodruff Beyond Nab End by William Woodruff Maid's Tale by Rose Plummer (as told to Tom Quinn) Rabbit stew and a penny or two by Maggie Smith-Bendell Bedpans and Bobby socks by Barbara Fox Bertie, May and Mrs Fish by Xandra Bingley Kitchener's last Volunteer by Henry Allingham Never Surrender by Robert Kershaw The last Fighting Tommy by Harry Patch Forgotten Voices: Voices from the Somme by Joshua Levine Forgotten Voices: Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain by Joshua Levine A Nurse in time by Evelyn Prentis Nella Last in the 1950's by Robert Malcolmson and Patricia Malcolmson My East End by Gilda O Neill Our Street by Gilda O Neill Up West by Pip Granger Our Hidden Lives by Simon Garfield We are at war by Simon Garfield Privaate Battles by Simon Garfield Love and War in London by Olivia Cockett Sand in my shoes by Joan Rice Letters from a Lost Generation by by Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge Don't forget to write by Pam Hobbs The Road back Home by Sid Waddell Below Stairs by by Margaret Powell They fought in the fields by Nicola Tyrer Wartime Women by Dorothy Sheridan Under the wire by William Ash and Brendan Foley Matron Knows Best by Joan Woodcock A Nurse in Action by Evelyn Prentis The Light in the Window by June Goulding The Girl in the Painted Caravan by Eva Petulengro Small Island by Andrea Levy Betty's Wartime Diary by Betty Armitage Dogs, goats, bulbs and Bombs by by John Folkes Guernsey under Occupation edited by Alice Evans Sisters in Arms by Nicola Tyrer The Lady's Maid by Rosina Harrison Bombsites and Lollipops by Jacky Hyams One pair of hands by Monica Dickens Keeping Mum by Brian Thompson Stranger in the house by Julie Summers Four Meals for Fourpence by Grace Foakes Brothers in War by Michael Walsh We were young and at War by Sarah Wallis & Svetlana Palmer Last of the few by Max Arthur Forgotten voices of the Victorian Cross by Roderick Bailey Voices from The Battle of Britain by Henry Buckton Voices in the air by Voices from the Titanic by Geoff Tidballs Growing up in the Gorbals, Gorbals boy at Oxford and Gorbals Voice, Siren songs OMNIBUS EDITION by Ralph Glasser Blitz Diary by Carol Harris The way things were by Denis Cassidy Forgotten Voices of the Great War by Max Arthur Forgotten Voices of the Second World War by Max Arthur First Light by Geoffrey Wellum Twopence to Cross the Mersey and Liverpool Miss by Helen Forrester A world to build by David Kynaston Some Sunny Day by Dame Vera Lynn What's tha up to? by Martyn Johnson Night song of the Last tram by Robert Douglas Climbing the stairs by Margaret Powell Child of the North by Edited March 5, 2012 by HoneyGirl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Butter Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Sisters in Arms is a very good book - I read that about a year ago, and it covers an area of the military that's usually overlooked. I know you'll enjoy it. Keeping Mum isn't a bad read, either, although it won't detain you for too long. I've also got a copy of Up West knocking around somewhere, although I haven't read it yet. I'm a sucker for books about London, especially lowlife London. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneyGirl Posted October 25, 2011 Author Share Posted October 25, 2011 Thanks Roland, I have to say that I am especially looking forward to reading Sisters in Arms, having seen the reviews and read the synopsis on the back, it seems like one not to be missed. I'm the same about books on London, I love to read about what life used to be like, it seems a world away from ours now, even though sometimes its only 50 years ago. I'll look for your posts as you seem to have similar book interests to my own I'll have to add the authors into my list shortly, will do it later this evening after I have had a look around on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 The 'Forgotton Voices' series books are very good. Which books have you got? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lumo Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 This is the second time this evening I have passed one of my dads recommendations on to you HoneyGirl, he must have had similar interests in books as you do (and indeed as I do): he said The Road to Nab End was an excellent book and encouraged me to read it. It's another of those books that I have intended to read for a while, but have never actually read. Many of your other books on that list have intriguing titles too :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneyGirl Posted October 26, 2011 Author Share Posted October 26, 2011 The 'Forgotton Voices' series books are very good. Which books have you got? I will be updating my list properly in a short while Laura, I had just put them up quickly yesterday from a list I had on my laptop This is the second time this evening I have passed one of my dads recommendations on to you HoneyGirl, he must have had similar interests in books as you do (and indeed as I do): he said The Road to Nab End was an excellent book and encouraged me to read it. It's another of those books that I have intended to read for a while, but have never actually read. Many of your other books on that list have intriguing titles too :-) Yes Duncan, you have been a hive of information I love the look of The Road to Nab End - it is one which I got from the charity shop for 70p then I went back to the same shop the following week and got the follow on of Beyond Nab End for another 70p so a complete bargain! Especially since I could not find the first book anywhere online. My mum had a quickl flick through The Road to Nab End and she said it looked intruiging, so maybe we should both consider starting it soon! If any book titles take your fancy, just let me know and I'll get the synopsis for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneyGirl Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Just added a load of new books to this list - its ever growing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devi Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 (edited) I thought you might find this book interesting - it's on my to purchase list. On Radji Beach by Ian W.Shaw synopsis from the publishers site: "When Singapore fell dramatically to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, hundreds of people scrambled to the docks to flee. Amongst the evacuees were 65 Australian nurses who boarded a coastal freighter named the Vyner Brooke. They only made it as far as the waters off Muntok Island near Sumatra. There, Japanese bombers sank the small ship. Those who survived the sinking drifted for up to three days before making landfall on one of the many beaches on Muntok. A group of about 60 shipwreck survivors, including 22 nurses, gathered at Radji Beach. They voted to surrender to the Japanese rather than slowly starve to death, but the Japanese patrol that found them did not accept their surrender. Instead, it divided the Europeans into three groups and killed them all in turn. The Australian nurses were in the third group, and 21 of them died in a hail of bullets as they walked, abreast, into the sea. Miraculously, there was one survivor, Vivian Bullwinkel, who brought the truth about this appalling atrocity to light, and who went on to experience the internment camps, starvation and disease that took away many of her friends." Edited March 7, 2012 by Devi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneyGirl Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 (edited) That sounds fascinating Devi, thanks so much for the recommendation - I'm off to get it on my wishlist, any more you have will be greatly appreciated. Plus if you see any titles you like the look of on my list, let me know and I will send you the synopsis ETA: Sorry for the delay in me replying, sometimes I don't check everywhere on here properly! Edited March 10, 2012 by HoneyGirl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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