Top Stories Goole at War Vol 1
Mike Marsh
£5.99 + £1.75 P&P
ISBN: 1 9 00503 00 9
There are many books about World War II, but this one is different. This is about the war as it was for the poeple of Goole and the surrounding district. In GOOLE AT WAR Volume 1, MIKE MARSH provides a dramatic, detailed account of local life in the early war years from 1939 to the end of 1941.
German soldiers welcomed in Goole a few weeks before the war began... a local woman's survival of the war's first shipping disaster... Goole men and Goole ships lost in the brutal war at sea... tales of escape from Dunkirk... how the district prepared for air raids and the threat of invasion... coping with the black-out, rationing, shortages and the first bombing attacks... the start of the district's Home Guard... the seaman who celebrated his 18th birthday in a lifeboat surrounded by sharks... the solider who was reported killed and then had his survival revealed in a broadcast by Lord Haw Haw.
All these stories and more are brought together in Mike Marsh's unique record of the early years of the war in Goole and district. Perhaps no other town in Britain will have its wartime experiences set down for posterity in such compelling detail as that to be found in GOOLE AT WAR.