Top Stories Goole at War Vol 2
Mike Marsh
£6.95 + £1.75 P&P
ISBN: 1 9 00503 01 0
This is how the people of Goole and district lived through some of the critical times of World War II. In GOOLE AT WAR ? Volume II, MIKE MARSH provides a vivid account of how local people endured struggle and sacrafice in those vital years from the beginning of 1942 to the end of 1943. In a time which saw a turning of the tide, they played their part in the making of history, and this is their story.
From husbands, sons and fathers who went off to war there are dramatic personal accounts... of gallantry on the battlefields at El Alamein and elsewhere... of heroism by men who faced the terrors of war at sea and in the air... of defiance and survival from some of the many who became prosoners of war.
GOOLE AT WAR also portrays life on the Home Front, as eye-witnesses tell of the day Goole was bombed... and of the 'Night of the Inferno' when two bombers collided above the town. Food shortages and desperate efforts to grow crops on every scrap of land... air raid alarms and fire-watching... clothes rationing... salvage drives and constant campaigns to help fund the nation's efforts through war savings ? GOOLE AT WAR also portrays the relentless struggle to 'keep the home fires burning.'
Bringing together countless stories which were in danger of being forgotten, MIKE MARSH continues his fascinating history of the local war... true stories about local people ? in his latest volume of GOOLE AT WAR.