A Welcome War. Synopsis
“World War 2 was the most welcome and alluring war of all time.”
A
ten-year-old lad begins the saga of his next five years influenced more
by military strategy, political power and bathos than by parents or
mentors.
As
a means of discovering how people react to adverse situations and the
fundamental lessons of history and geography are taught him in the most
exciting ways. To put it in his own words, “It beats schoolwork,
hands down!”
What they are saying about ‘A Welcome War’
Multi-published historical writer, Kev Richardson, has a way of
bringing the history of his homeland, New South Wales [cum Australia]
up front and personal. In his latest work, A WELCOME WAR, I was notably
impressed with his astute presentation of a young lad’s
impressions and compulsion to follow the happenings of World War II.
From a ten-year-old’s impassioned sense of wonder, to his later
assessments, as a young man of eighteen, he recounts his personal
translation of the war that changed his life. The book includes many
captivating memories from his younger years, and his recorded
impressions of the exciting historical happenings of war.
Kev
Richardson presents his own bio as a school-boy at ten, confused by the
changing colors on his war map as countries changed hands during WWII.
It became his first passionate effort to record history and the war
that influenced the rest of his life. Yet the book, A WELCOME WAR also
gazes into the heart of a boy growing up to discover the pleasures of
scouting, swimming, hiking… and girls!
This account which lists accurate dates and war time impressions,
verifies this writer’s dedication to discovering and disclosing
the truths in history that have in the past been purposely hidden. This
enchanting biography of his own youth is not to be missed.
If
you love history, I highly recommend you read all of Richardson’s
extensive historical writings about the First Fleet to Australia and
the men and women who populated the shockingly hidden history behind
the penal colony in the beginning years of New South Wales - all
available at www.wings-press.com.
