Book Club of War

  The Psychiatrist – John West   This is a truly gripping book.  It weaves together brilliant research, a deep understanding of World War 2 and a half-told memoir into a fantastic fact-based novel.  Inspired by a true story. Eric West wanted to put World War 2 behind him.  So why, After a lifetime of helping and healing others, did psychiatrist, Dr Eric West, decide to revisit the scenes of his worst nightmares? He never wanted to talk about the debacle at Dunkirk.  he never wanted to relive the retreat from Cassel in 1940 and his capture at the hands of the occupying German forces. He wanted to blank out the horror of that journey to the POW camp deep in the heart of Easter Europe and the subsequent four years of his life where, along with other Dunkirk veterans, he was incarcerated and brutally used as a forced slave labourer for the Third Reich. He never spoke about his Long march Home in the winter of 1945.  In ‘The Psychiatrist’ the author John West tells a story of the psycho

  As the interest in World War 2 continues to flower.   People begin to realise it is far more than battles and tactics and some of the more fascinating stories are the personal stories, the individuals from all nations and how they contributed to this worldwide conflict. In Moro Warrior, the author, Thomas McKenna has captured a truly remarkable story of a Philippine Chieftain, an American School Master, and the remarkable story of resistance fighters in the Pacific. Remarkable is a great word to use with this book.    It is a story of friendship, of tragedy, of differing cultures.     Though it is a story of war it is far more than that, it captures at its heart the human nature of war and how friendships are developed. The author has obviously undertaken immense detailed research and that is reflected in the passionate writing that weaves a stunning story from start to finish.   What I really loved was that this is a narrative history, not only researched but with what are cle