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Courage Above All Things
COURAGE ABOVE ALL THINGS: BEHIND ENEMY LINES
Local author and social historian ROMY WYETH has just published a new book that includes stories of remarkable courage under fire...
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Each chapter tells a different story Behind Enemy Lines includes individual stories of remarkable courage and endurance from both World Wars through to Palestine, Korea and Suez. The book includes fighting behind enemy lines in North Africa, Europe, the Middle and the Far East. There is bravery on the battlefields from Normandy to the Reichswald Forest, in the air with Bomber Command and beneath the sea with Naval Clearance divers. The book heads into the Burmese jungle with Orde Wingate’s Chindits and into the desert with 51 Commando and The Special Interrogation Group. We are taken behind the wire in the Prison Camps of Italy, Germany, Poland and Borneo. Above all every story in the book tells of survival against all odds and the resilience of
Singapore Yacht Club c1934, before the country's fall
Courage Above All Things: the human spirit. Every chapter tells a different story: Why did Hitler give Iron Crosses to a unit of the Royal Army Medical Corps? What was it like to be a German family in Minden during the War? What happened to the evacuation ships and their passengers as they attempted to escape before the Fall of Singapore? How did a secret section of British Military Intelligence condemn thousands of British POW’s to further imprisonment and death unbeknown to Churchill and the War Cabinet? Find out about two battlefield miracles, a young officer at Mons and an American GI in Normandy saved despite being left for dead.
For anyone with a keen interest in history, or simply for those who love to see human courage win out, this is a great read.
Courage Above All Things: Behind Enemy Lines by Romy Wyeth is published by Brown Dog Books and costs £15. It is available from all good bookshops as well as online.
