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A Soldier’s Story
By Mike Wood
Dunkirk and D-Day are both iconic dates in history. And they’re also the bookend dates in Mike Wood’s new book – A Soldier’s Story – about his father’s war years.
One of the last men to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk, and a witness to the horrors of Bergen Belsen five years later, the war years of Mike’s father, Neville Wood, were anything but dull.
Mike was fortunate to spend hours talking to his father about his war years and over the years came to hear many anecdotes and gain many insights. He has now brought these personal testimonials together with his father’s war diaries and combined them with considerable military history research, to provide us with an account of the duration of the war, told as a story from one man’s experiences, for an engaging read. Mike explains in his preface, ‘Despite wider research I have had to use fictional licence to build the story around the actual events… [but] I
