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"Within these pages, there are tales of extraordinary bravery. They offer us all inspiration and hope for humanity.\" Terry Waite CBE \"A poignant and engaging account of war’s effect on ordinary people … it’s important to be reminded of the human cost in the battle for freedom – and to ponder on the evil, poverty and disregard for the sanctity of human life that are at the root of so much conflict."
The Rt Rev. Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester and Royal British Legion National Chaplain
"These stories of ordinary, unsung people caught up in warfare provide a personal dimension that’s not normally to be found. Unforgettably, they bring us face to face with war’s realities."
Martin Bell OBE, former BBC war correspondent and independent MP
"Heroes are not supermen or superwomen but ordinary people who have the courage and resolve to do extraordinary things. John Miller has done us all a favour by recording for posterity these stories of quiet courage and grace under pressure."
Trevor Royle, military historian; associate editor, Sunday Herald
"A continuous golden thread of solid Christian conviction runs through this book. It would be a dull person who could not be moved by the simple honesty of the stories, all told without the faintest trace of rancour."
AC Herdman, Commander Royal Navy, chief executive of the Earl Haig Fund, Scotland
Powerful, brave and inspiring stories of war at the front and at home – from ordinary people.
This remarkable book gives first-hand accounts of the war experiences of working-class men and women from Castlemilk, Glasgow. The stories are from the front and at home. We learn what life was like before war intervened: the streets and the fields, the jobs at the factory and the blacksmith, the large families with wholesome food and the church-going. After the war, the lives they once knew were forever vanished, and some of them faced another struggle to fit in to a changing world.
We might expect such stories to be bitter or harrowing. Instead, they are full of courage, tolerance and stoicism. Among the unspeakable horrors of war we find acts of human kindness.