TO WAR WITH THE WALKERS

Weaving the lives of brothers, sisters, wives, husbands and lovers seamlessly, this sweeping narrative casts a highly personal light on some of the most significant episodes of the Second World War. The book is the heart-wrenching reality faced by so many families whose sons and daughters were caught up in war. What would it be like to spend six years fearing what a telegram might bring? From the Blitz to the battlefields of Europe and the Far East, this is the remarkable story of four brothers and two sisters. Harold was a surgeon in a London hospital alongside his sister Ruth, a nurse, when the bombs began to fall in 1940. Peter was captured in the fall of Singapore. Edward fought the Germans in Italy, and Walter the Japanese in Burma, while in London, glamorous Bee hoped for lasting happiness with an American airman. Walter?s granddaughter Annabel Venning tells the moving tales of her relatives who were swept along by the momentous events of the war. 'If you can read the passage on the bombing of St. Thomas's Hospital, you'll truly appreciate great writing, and sheer terror.' - Edward Donne. 313pp, index, photos and map.