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Twenty One
Coming of Age in the Second World War
- Author: James Holland
- Category: Non-fiction
- Publisher: HarperCollins(UK)
- Pub date: 2 May 2006
- Length: 368 pages
About Twenty One
This is a book about twenty-one survivors of the Second World War, most of whom were ordinary people who would never, under normal circumstances, have experienced life in the armed forces. All of them witnessed combat at first hand, however.
TWENTY-ONE: COMING OF AGE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR includes personal testimony from men and women from the United States, Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland and India, and who served on land, sea (and under the sea) and in the air, and in a range of different theatres of war. The book follows the experiences of these young men and women, all of whom came of age during a savage global conflict, and tells their stories of staggering bravery and sacrifice. It is an eulogy to a dying generation.
About the Author
James Holland was born in Salisbury and studied at Durham University. He has written for a number of newspapers and magazines. He is the prolific author of FORTRESS MALTA: An Island Under Siege, 1940-43, TOGETHER WE STAND: North Africa, 1942-43 and ITALY’S SORROW: A Year of War, 1944-45, and two novels, THE BURNING BLUE and A PAIR OF SILVER WINGS. He has also written and presented a film, ‘Victory in Europe’. Married with a son, he lives near Salisbury.