'I never usually know what to give the men in my life but I've
found the perfect book: VINTAGE ROGER by Roger Mortimer, a
collection of letters from the author's war years. He manages to be
hilariously funny, even about the most gruesome encounters. I
laughed and cried and enjoyed every word' Jilly Cooper (Good
Housekeeping festive pick) I think prison has done me very little
harm and some good. I am now far better read, far less smug and
conceited, far more tolerant and considerably more capable of
looking after myself. In 1930, twenty-one-year-old Roger Mortimer
was commissioned into the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards and spent
the next eight years stationed at Chelsea Barracks. He lived a
fairly leisurely existence, with his parents' house in Cadogan
Square a stone's throw away, and pleasant afternoons were whiled
away at the racecourse or a members' club. Admittedly things got a
little tricky in Palestine in 1938, when Roger, now a captain,
found himself amid the action in the Arab Revolt. The worst,
however, was yet to come. In May 1940, while fighting the Germans
with the British Expeditionary Force in the Battle of Belgium, he
was knocked unconscious by an exploding shell. When he came round
he was less than delighted to find that he was a prisoner of war.
Thus began a period of incarceration that would last five long
years, and which for Roger there seemed no conceivable end in
sight. Vintage Roger is Roger Mortimer at his witty, irreverent
best, exuding the charm and good humour that captured the nation's
hearts in Dear Lupin and Dear Lumpy. Steadfastly optimistic and
utterly captivating, these letters, written to his good friend
Peggy Dunne from May 1940 to late 1944, paint a vivid portrait of
life as a POW., ,
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