Book Club of War

  To be an independent writer and self-publish a book is a very special thing to do and I will always support authors that do this. In Frank Speaking – from Suvla to Schweidnitz the author Carole Hope has done an exceptional job is transcribing the memoirs of Frank Laird. Frank Morrow Laird wrote the memoir of his experiences during the First World War but due to his death in 1925 it remained unfinished.   The memoir has humour, sadness, and thoughts and memories of those he served with. The memoir runs from July 1914 and follows Franks journey from the call to arms through his experiences in the trenches where he was wounded three times to being captured and made a prisoner of war to his last entry in November 1918. Franks Journey takes him from Dublin, Ireland, and officer training to serving across England and then to Gallipoli where his description of the fighting brings home the emotions and reality of battle.   Wounded, he is returned to England, marries, and returns to h

  The brilliant thing with this book is how easy it is to read.    A really beautiful flow of words with a plot that is easy to follow. Out of the Desert: Danger Close… is book one in the wings of victory series.   It starts in 1940 in Egypt and follows the story of a young ambitious Royal Air Force pilot Peter Denhay who is posted to an operational bomber squadron at the start of a major Italian offensive into Egypt. This is a story of relationships, of suspicion that there is a double agent operating in their midst, of intelligence and of the XXI squadron and their battles though Egypt, Create and mainland Greece. The intensity of the last air battle leaves you breathless, you live the fight through these brilliant characters. The author Tom Walker has written a brilliant part one to the series.   His writing is detailed but with a real pace in the story.   He has captured a real part of history that is well researched and woven a fantastic fictional story into the heart of the