Some Sunny Day
A nurse. A soldier. A wartime love story.
It was July 1944 when Madge stepped onto a troopship that was to carry her thousands of miles away from home. Only twenty years old and not long qualified as a nurse, she had signed up to serve in the Burma Campaign. She would be based on the Indian border, near the frontline, where a fierce battle was raging between Allied forces and the Japanese.As Madge arrived in Chittagong, she wondered how she would adapt to the ever-present danger of invasion and to life in a military hospital. She spent long, exhausting hours nursing the badly injured young soldiers in her care, but found strength in her friendship with the other nurses. And then, one…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Blair, Robert
- ISBN: 978-1-5098-5937-5
- EAN: 9781509859375
- Produktnummer: 23940111
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.2 cm x D2.3 cm 278 g
- Gewicht: 278
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Madge Lambert (née Graves) was born in Kent in 1923. At 94, she is one of the few remaining women to have served as a nurse during the Burma Campaign between 1944 and 1945, where she met her husband, Captain Basil Lambert. The couple share a love for dance to this day and appeared on a Strictly Come Dancing Remembrance Day special in 2016.Robert 'Bob' Blair is the son of a RAF navigator who flew Mosquitos in the Burma Campaign and a WAAF mother who was stationed at Bletchley in the Second World War. He began his career in news production on weekly papers. He moved to the London Evening Standard before emigrating to Canada where he worked for the Ottawa Citizen, then moved to Hong Kong. After two years with the South China Morning Post Group he returned to London and spent thirty years with Mirror Group Newspapers.
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