It all started here. My Dad, like so many of his generation, didn’t talk about his wartime experience. I owed it to him and to myself to write his wartime story. He died at the age of 52 when I was 23 so we never got to talk about it – and he may never have opened up about that time anyway.
So working out what he did was a jigsaw puzzle but without a finished picture to work towards. The pieces of the jigsaw comprised the few comments he made that I recall, personal military documents and photographs handed down, the official 15th Scottish Divisional history and the war diaries of the 2nd Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry (The Glasgow Highlanders). At the end of the research, the jigsaw puzzle picture was complete – I could at last say, ‘so Dad, that’s what you did‘.
If you’re interested in the detailed story, the paperback book and the Kindle version are available from Amazon (£5.25 for paperback and £2.50 for the Kindle). The maps work better on the Kindle version.
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