The Boy With Only One Shoe - Meller, John Henry; Brownbill, Caroline Annette
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This book is a must read, a real page turner, accompanied by wartime photographs. 95 year old Bomber Command veteran John Henry Meller describes beautifully what it was like to live through the wartime years, waking up on an operational base in 1945. Few now remain to recount first hand the emotions, experiences and bravery of combat in a Lancaster Bomber. You really feel like you are there with him. With a 46% attrition rate the Lancaster bomber was one of the most dangerous places to be in WW2. No one was enlisted to become aircrew; they were all volunteers. At just 18 years old, John was…mehr

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This book is a must read, a real page turner, accompanied by wartime photographs. 95 year old Bomber Command veteran John Henry Meller describes beautifully what it was like to live through the wartime years, waking up on an operational base in 1945. Few now remain to recount first hand the emotions, experiences and bravery of combat in a Lancaster Bomber. You really feel like you are there with him. With a 46% attrition rate the Lancaster bomber was one of the most dangerous places to be in WW2. No one was enlisted to become aircrew; they were all volunteers. At just 18 years old, John was one such man. He and his crew had several close calls , but were one of the few lucky ones to survive. This book is a fitting, compassionate tribute to the 55,573 who did not return. Lest we forget.
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John is a 95 year old Bomber Command veteran. The Boy With Only One Shoe is his illustrated social history autobiography, from his childhood growing up in Warrington in the 1920s through to enlisting at 18 and joining Bomber Command. John describes beautifully what it was like living through those wartime years and waking up on an operational base in 1945. You feel like you are there with him. The empty chairs and empty tables of colleagues who failed to return. His crew had several close calls but were one of the lucky ones to survive. As few now remain to recount this experience first hand he felt that this book needed to be written in remembrance and honour of those who didn't return. More importantly though - it now needs to be read - lest we forget.