All posts tagged World War II
A twist of fate
FOR author Ben Elton, it was an amazing family story that he has wanted to tell for decades, but it was only in recent years that he felt ready to write the novel, Two Brothers, which tells the story of …
Gleitzman’s final chapter in Holocaust series
SETTING a novel for children around World War II and the Holocaust may seem surprising, yet author Morris Gleitzman has found it a winning formula, with his series
Spirit of a wartime hero
NOT long before he left England for good, Mark Dapin spent a significant amount of time with his grandfather and his grandfather’s last-surviving war buddies, “just drinking”. The stories










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