Keep smiling through : my wartime story

Resource Information

The work Keep smiling through : my wartime story represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

Keep smiling through : my wartime story

Title remainder

my wartime story

Statement of responsibility

Vera Lynn ; with Virginia Lewis-Jones

Creator

• Lynn, Vera

Contributor

• Lewis-Jones, Virginia, 1946-
• Dover, Anne.
• Soundings (Firm)
• Thorpe, David.

Author

• Lynn, Vera
• Lewis-Jones, Virginia, 1946-

Narrator

• Dover, Anne.
• Thorpe, David.

Publisher

• Soundings (Firm)

Subject

• Soldiers -- Recreation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Women singers -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Lynn, Vera
• Singers -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Autobiographies
• Great Britain -- Armed Forces | Recreation
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma -- Personal narratives, British
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British
• Biographies
• Entertainments National Service Association (Great Britain)

Genre

• Biography
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Personal narratives, British

Language

eng

Summary

"In the year of her 100th birthday, Dame Vera Lynn's fascinating and life-affirming wartime memoir from the forces' sweetheart of her adventures entertaining the troops in far-flung Burma. 'I was just twenty-seven years old when I went to Burma. It was an experience that changed my life for ever. Up until that time I had not really travelled anywhere at all, apart from one touring visit to Holland with a band I was singing with before the war, and I had certainly never been in an aeroplane. But I wanted to make a difference, to do my bit.' And she did. Written with her daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones this is a powerful and life-affirming account of the time she spent with troops in wartime Burma. Based, in part on a diary she kept, alongside unpublished personal letters and photographs from surviving veterans and their families, it explores why it was such a life-defining event for her and shows how her presence helped the soldiers, airmen and others who heard her sing."--Publisher's description

Cataloging source

CaOWLBI

Dewey number

• 940.542591092
• B

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

autobiography

PerformerNote

Read by Anne Dover and David Thorpe