Keep Smiling Through - My Wartime Story

In the year of her 100th birthday, Dame Vera Lynn's fascinating and life-affirming wartime memoir from the forces' sweetheart's of her adventures entertaining the troops in far-flung Burma.'I was just twenty-seven years old when I went to Burma. It was an experience that changed my life for ever. Up until that time I had not really travelled anywhere at all, apart from one touring visit to Holland with a band I was singing with before the war, and I had certainly never been in an aeroplane. But I wanted to make a difference, to do my bit.'And she did.Written with her daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones this is a powerful and life-affirming account of the time she spent with troops in wartime Burma. Based, in part on a diary she kept, alongside unpublished personal letters and photographs from surviving veterans and their families, it explores why it was such a life-defining event for her and shows how her presence helped the soldiers, airmen and others who heard her sing.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Lewis-Jones, Lewis-Jones Virginia, Dame Vera Lynn, Dame Vera Lewis-Jones Lynn, Dame VeraLewis-Jones Lynn, Lynn Dame Vera
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781787460119
• ISBN: 978-1-78746-011-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Social and cultural history, Autobiography: arts and entertainment