David Lowther's Blog, page 2
November 6, 2023
THE PHONEY WAR
When I was a boy, many years ago, my father owned a large cafe/restaurant on Barry Island, the jewel of the South Wales coast. The Dorothy Cafe was a big building with a sweet shop/ small waitress service area at … Continue reading →
September 27, 2023
MOVING ON FROM 1939
Back in 2019, I wrote on here about my book, THE SUMMER OF ‘39, published two years prior in 2017. I haven’t done nothing since then. I’ve been researching and writing – and travelling a bit – and writing again … Continue reading →
September 21, 2023
THE MONTHS BEFORE THE WAR
by David Lowther
ABOUT ME AND THE WAR
I’m David Lowther, author of four – soon to be five – books that centre around the Second World War. I started this blog over a decade ago now and those books have come into creation since, so I may … Continue reading →
June 27, 2023
Introducing my blog
You can find it here: davidlowtherblog.wordpress.com
May 11, 2020
THE NEW NORMAL Exercising
by David Lowther Usually I write about the Second World War but, as we are constantly told, the current emergency is the biggest crisis that we have faced since that catastrophic event, I felt that tackling some … Continue reading →
May 2, 2020
THE BLUE PENCIL
My novel, set between 1936 and 1939, has eerie echoes of today. From May 1937, Neville Chamberlain’s government restricted access to Downing Street press briefings to those newspapers and journals supportive of the appeasement policies which were … Continue reading →
April 14, 2020
SEVENTY FIVE YEARS ON
The Durham Light Infantry and the Belsen Concentration Camp David Lowther Three-quarters of a century ago, soldiers from the 11th. Armoured Division of the British Army reached Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near the town of Celle in North-West Germany. What they … Continue reading →
January 26, 2020
REMEMBER
January 27th. 1945 On this day in 1945, the 60th. Army of the First Ukranian Front arrived at a vast complex of of factories, camps, barracks and other buildings in Poland which became known to the world as … Continue reading →
November 24, 2019
GODALMING: Town of Tales and Light
by DAVID LOWTHER Godalming is a town about 4 miles south of Guildford with a population of twenty-one thousand. My wife and I came to live here three and a half years ago, having moved from North East England. I arrived … Continue reading →
