Based on her best-selling book, Annabel Venning tells the enthralling and moving tales of her relatives, the Walkers, during WW2: six ordinary young men and women, who each faced an extraordinary struggle for survival.
How would it feel if all your sons and daughters were caught up in war? What would it be like to spend six years fearing what a telegram might bring?
That was the heart-wrenching reality faced by so many families throughout the Second World War, including the parents of the Walker children. From the Blitz to the battlefields of Europe and the Far East, this is the remarkable story of four brothers and two sisters who were swept along by the momentous events of the war. Harold was a surgeon in a London hospital alongside his sister Ruth, a nurse, when the bombs began to fall in 1940. Peter was captured in the fall of Singapore. Edward fought the Germans in Italy, and Walter the Japanese in Burma, while in London, glamorous Bee hoped for lasting happiness with an American airman.
Annabel Venning explores the moving stories of her relatives, showing us the realities faced by thousands of ordinary families during the Second World War.
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