- Paperback: 420 pages
- Publisher: Authors Online Ltd (23 Nov 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755201558
- ISBN-13: 978-0755201556
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 14.6 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,724,193 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a detailed account, told mainly in the form of the true letters and dairy notes of one young man¿s experience of World War II from the day he was ¿called up¿ to the day he returned home almost five years later. There are no heroics, no sex, and any drama is hidden between the lines. The letters to his wife, Gwen, are matter-of-fact, at times almost naïve, but often with a touch of humour. They were written in uncomfortable and sometimes primitive conditions from barrack rooms in England, India and Malaya, from the crowded decks of troopships and as censored postcards and letters from Japanese POW Camps in Singapore, Taiwan and Japan. They appear exactly as written. Nothing added, nothing taken away. Parts of the Diary and other notes written during the first 19 months of captivity were confiscated by the Imperial Japanese Army in Tokyo. The remainder were hidden and brought safely home. Harry Berry's wife Gwen, never gave up hope even though it was 18 months from the fall of Singapore before she received news of her husband. She kept all his letters, without which this small insignificant slice of 20th century history would never have been preserved for posterity!
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My Darling Wife,
By Alison (London England) - See all my reviews
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"Quite apart from its historical interest, one of the most fascinating aspects of this book, and one that the author would have been largely unaware of at the time, is the subtle but undeniable change in his character during five years away from home and his sweetheart...Harry, a rather naive and recently engaged 23 year old, is supremely confident of his social standing as a well-educated, literate and ambitious young journalist, albeit from a working class background. Then, in 1940, he is conscripted into wartime national service. A reluctant soldier, with some disdain for the faceless authority of the British Army, he documents the daily trivialities and impositions put upon him and his peers in these letters to his fiancee, Gwen, whom he marries while on leave. His frustration at the apparent lack of logic behind decisions made by distant superiors is tempered by the humour and glee with which he exposes their fumblings, and his eternal optimism as he anticipates each turn of events. Harry's skills, strength and spirit develop as he faces ever greater challenges, and somehow continues to see positive opportunities in the most negative of situations. Reading between the lines with hindsight, we can guess at some of his hardships, but there are already enough accounts of war, cruelty and pain - this book is a unique view of wartime life as seen by an 'ordinary man', recorded with love, and warmth, and hope."
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