**DAILY MAIL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019** **SUNDAY TELEGRAPH CHRISTMAS
BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019** 'So blissfully good that I'd give it to a
reader of any age . . . deeply touching, unforgettable family
memoir' ALLISON PEARSON, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Uplifting and
enlightening . . . Venning has a good eye for what makes the Walker
story both unique and universal . . . Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Superb . . . With its sweeping narrative, readable style, sense of
humanity and breadth of research, the saga casts a highly personal
light on some of the most significant episodes of [the Second World
War]' DAILY EXPRESS 'A heart-pounding narrative that feels fresh .
. . this marvellous book also depicts a world that was soon to
vanish' DAILY MAIL 'A moving book . . . This account of one
family's experience takes us to hidden crannies of the war that
more official accounts might not bother with . . . Once read, never
forgotten' THE TIMES 'A sensationally good book . . . I see
reflections of my own family, and beyond them, like those mirrors
tilted slightly into infinity, I can see literally miles of others
lined up, inexorably linked forever by a shared experience . . .
this is an exceptional book and should be required reading in
modern history classes' JOANNA LUMLEY 'An extraordinary, compelling
picture of a family entwined in the Second World War . . . at turns
funny, sad, redemptive and tragic. Fabulous' JAMES HOLLAND 'A
loving tribute . . . Brimming with anecdote and rich in fascinating
detail' KEGGIE CAREW ~ How would it feel if all your sons and
daughters were caught up in war? What would it be like to spend six
years fearing what a telegram might bring? That was the
heart-wrenching reality faced by so many families throughout the
Second World War, including the parents of the Walker children.
From the Blitz to the battlefields of Europe and the Far East, this
is the remarkable story of four brothers and two sisters who were
swept along by the momentous events of the war. Harold was a
surgeon in a London hospital alongside his sister Ruth, a nurse,
when the bombs began to fall in 1940. Peter was captured in the
fall of Singapore. Edward fought the Germans in Italy, and Walter
the Japanese in Burma, while in London, glamorous Bee hoped for
lasting happiness with an American airman. In To War With the
Walkers, Annabel Venning, Walter's granddaughter, tells the
enthralling and moving tales of her relatives, six ordinary young
men and women, who each faced an extraordinary struggle for
survival.
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