Never Surrender: Lost Voices of a Generation at War
Robert Kershaw stitches veteran interviews into a sweeping oral history of Britain at war.
- Author
- Robert Kershaw
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Price
- £0.99 (Google Play Books)
- ISBN
- 9780340962039
- Published
- 2009
Never Surrender: Lost Voices of a Generation at War by Robert Kershaw
Former Parachute Regiment officer Robert Kershaw canvasses veterans across services to chart Britain’s path from pre-war jitters to VE Day. Through vivid vignettes he reveals how ill-prepared troops coped in Norway, on Dunkirk’s beaches, and in the desert, and how Commandos, Merchant Navy crews, Bomber Command, and the Home Guard adapted under fire.
The interviews expose the improvisation, grit, and humour that sustained ordinary people as they faced blitzes, V-weapons, and relentless campaigning from Normandy to the Reich. It’s a sobering, first-hand tapestry for readers keen to hear the conflict in the voices of those who endured it.
Hodder & Stoughton. £0.99 (Google Play Books). ISBN 9780340962039.