The Wheel of Time

Ten years ago I struggled to put my father’s memoir of his war years into shape and it became “From Coastal Command to Captivity”. In the intervening years I had contact with all kinds of other people who were also writing about World War Two prisoners, striving to tell the stories that the world had overlooked.

Along the way I made contact with Robert Laplander and was able to supply him with some small bits of information. He has now produced the best-researched and most readable text on the Wooden Horse Escape (which my father was a small part of). I’m delighted to say that Robert’s superb book has just been accepted by Pen and Sword publishers – the premier publisher of military books in the UK.

The aim in this is not to glorify war, but to point out the indomitable strength of human nature required when resisting tyranny, when creating peace. We can all learn from that.

And so we can see that every effort we make has a knock-on effect, even if it takes ten years, or perhaps more.