Memoir | 240pp | Little, Brown | March 2012
Thirty years after the Falklands War Tony Banks is still haunted by his experiences in the South Atlantic. As a member of the crack Parachute Regiment his unit was the first to land on the Falklands and he fought in all the war’s bloody battles before liberating Port Stanley. In this memoir Tony vividly recalls the fighting in the Falklands. He relives the bombing raids in San Carlos bay, the Battle of Goose Green, the Argentinean attack on the Sir Galahad and the Battle of Wireless Ridge. But he also tells of his own battles - with Combat Stress -and of how, three decades on, the war is still claiming victims. He tells the stories of British and Argentine veterans and travels to Argentina to return a war trophy – a trumpet he had taken from a prisoner – to its rightful owner. The return of the trumpet brings closure to both men. And finally, Tony returns to the Falklands to lay the ghosts that have haunted him to rest.
A LONG WAY FROM PARADISE: Surviving the Rwandan Genocide by Leah Chishugi
Memoir | 304pp | Virago | November 2010
L eah Chishugi grew up in eastern Congo but, aged seventeen, she moved to Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to work as a model. She married and had a son. Then in 1994 she was caught up in the horrific conflict, and escaped only after being left for dead under a pile of corpses. She fled with her son to Uganda, then South Africa where she was miraculously reunited with her husband whom she believed dead. Leah finally settled in the UK where she was granted asylum and became a nurse. After her mother died, Leah decided to set up a charity called Everything is a Benefit to help the women and children of eastern Congo - victims of continuing war atrocities. A LONG WAY FROM PARADISE is a deeply courageous narrative of one woman's survival of personal trauma and finding a greater purpose in life through devotion to the service of others.
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BEDPANS AND BOBBY SOCKS: Five British Nurses on the American Road Trip of a Lifetime
by Barbara Fox
Memoir | 320pp | Sphere | March 2011
The charming story of five nurses on a road trip around America in the 1950s
‘In my dreams, I was always in some vast landscape on a long, straight road. Driving. Always driving.’ Gwenda had always loved the open road, but her home town of Newcastle didn’t really offer the sort of adventure she longed for. So, in 1957, with friend and fellow nurse Pat in tow, she left the dismal British winter behind, and embarked on an amazing American adventure. After a year n ursing in Cleveland, Gwenda, Pat and three new friends set off on a road trip around North America, driving in a rickety 1949 Ford. What follows is the charming true story of five remarkable young women. Over the course of eighteen months, the girls go to a 4th July rodeo, visit San Francisco and Las Vegas, learn to surf in Hawaii, spot movie stars in Hollywood and celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Wherever they go, the travelling nurses cause a sensation. This is a delightfully nostalgic memoir of friendship and the romance of the open road. Barbara Fox is the daughter of Gwenda Gofton. She is a freelance journalist.
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