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 Based, in part on a diary she kept, alongside unpublished personal letters and photographs from surviving veterans and their families, it explores why it was such a life-defining event for her and shows how her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.

Title - Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story

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Author - Virginia Lewis-Jones,Dame Vera Lynn

ISBN 13 - 9781780898346

Imprint - Century

Publisher - Cornerstone

Date Published - 16/11/2017

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Binding Type - Hardback

Dimensions - 162 x 240 x 30mm

Weight - 577 g

Languages - English