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Pamela's War: A Moving Account Of A Young Girl's Life In The Midlands During The Second World War First Edition
Author(s): Cherryl Vines (Author)
- Publisher: The History Press
- Publication Date: 1 Feb. 2012
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 144 pages
- ISBN-10: 0752468138
- ISBN-13: 9780752468136
Book Description
This is the true story of a fifteen-year-old girl’s experience of the Second World War, based around her parent’s hotel in a sleepy Worcestershire village. As war is declared, her father prepares three bullets for the invasion. He will shoot the family and himself when the Germans come. In their village, local Germans are imprisoned (guilty or not). The blackout is immediate and has tragic consequences. There is a court case over an alleged poker game. An abortion nearly results in tragedy. Handsome young airmen fly low over the hotel, Pamela has a premonition of death. The business fails. An air raid very nearly kills them all. She is called up first to factory work and then to the Land Army. She marries by special licence. As the war comes to an end she is living at home with her parents and a small baby, at wich point she is just twenty-one years of age. Amusing and entertaining, surprising and moving, Pamela’s account vividly captures one family’s life on the home front in Worcestershire.
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About the Author
Cherryl Vines is 86-year-old Pamela Edith Wheeler’s daughter and has spent some of her retirement compiling her mother’s fascinating war memories.
