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Wendy Percival
- Oct 6, 2018
- 2 min
#WW2 Secrets of the Scilly Isles
This blog has fallen silent recently as I've been away holidaying on Tresco, one of the islands of the beautiful Isles of Scilly. I...
Wendy Percival
- Jul 4, 2018
- 2 min
#WW2 bomb nightmare - my aunt's story
You may recall that on this blog recently I wrote the story of my mum Pat's terrifying experience of having a WW2 incendiary bomb drop at...
Wendy Percival
- Jun 19, 2018
- 2 min
A compelling #WW2 read
I’ve had Kathryn Gauci’s book, Conspiracy of Lies, on my TBR list for a while. After researching WW2’s Special Operations Executives for...
Wendy Percival
- Jun 8, 2018
- 2 min
Terror of a #WW2 bomb - was Jack to blame?
As children we loved to hear our mum tell her childhood story of the night she was almost killed and our gran's bravery in saving her....
Wendy Percival
- May 12, 2018
- 1 min
A day of celebration during 3 years of incarceration
After falling off a wall when he was about 7 years old and damaging his hip, my dad spent almost 3 years in Standon Hall Orthopaedic & TB...