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Internationally acclaimed Aerial Photographer and Historian Martin Bowman visits Great Yarmouth to promote his eagerly awaited new book.
‘Books Inside’ are delighted that Martin has picked the independent bookseller as the venue in Great Yarmouth to promote his new book 'Air War in East Anglia'.
The book is a tribute to the US 8th Air Force and their time spent in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
‘I was born in London but at the height of the war my family moved to the coastal town of Ipswich in Suffolk. It was there that I gained my first impression of real live Americans. There were about five of them who were very much under the influence of alcohol. Their hats were on the backs of their heads and their ties were every way but the right way. Two of them were sitting on the kerb and the others were holding up a lamp post .They were singing. My immediate thought was, “If this is a sample of the Americans who have come over to help us, heaven help us”.’ M.L. Bury St Edmunds.
This is just one of the huge number of reminiscences of people in East Anglia looking back at the war years, when this peaceful English backwater became ‘Little America’, home to one of the most intensive military operations ever staged – the air war in Europe. In this fascinating book the author chronicles the lives of ordinary people, of the airmen and others who were involved in the desperate struggle to free Europe from Nazi tyranny.
Notes:
Martin will be giving a talk about his new book and signing copies, on Wednesday 5thAugust from 7pm-8pm at Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth. Advance tickets are £1 and can be redeemed against a copy of one of Martin’s books at the event. Tickets can be bought in person from Books Inside, Market Gates, Gt Yarmouth, reserved by phone on 01493 850777 or email orders@booksinside.co.uk
For those not able to get the talk, signed copies can be ordered online at www.thelocalbookshop.co.uk
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