Diary 275

Friday, December 18th

A piece of good news for me; my father’s memoir of his World War II years, ‘From Coastal Command to Captivity’ which first appeared in 2003, will now be reprinted in paperback. I ‘finished’ the book, which was left incomplete when he died, and which he handed over to me. As he said, ‘Do something with it’. 

It’s due out in March next year.

War and fighting are not my preferred topics, but I do believe that we have a duty to preserve the histories of that generation, to remind every other generation that war is a ghastly activity, and to learn from their pain and fortitude.