Into Wind: A History Of British Naval Flying

Popham, Hugh

Hamilton

Bill Griffiths lost his sight and both hands as a prisoner of the Japanese in Java in 1942. Despite these handicaps, he was determined not to spend the rest of his life in a home for the disabled. This is his story, as told to Hugh Popham, author of "Into the Wind" and "A Thirst for the Sea".

Blind to Misfortune: A Story of Great Courage in the Face of Adversity

Griffiths, Bill

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

The strangely named First Aid Nursing Yeomanry traces its origins to the First World War. As a mark of their outstanding service they remained in being between the Wars. However, it is for their service during the Second World War that they are best known. They worked in a wide variety of roles both at home and overseas, both overt and covert. Of the latter there were 39 girls who worked with SOE behind the lines with Resistance movements. Of these 13 were captured and killed, often after torture, including Odette Churchill and Violette Szabo. Many others worked as coders and decoders, running safe-houses and training agents and in a variety of supporting roles.

The FANY in Peace and War: The Story of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, 1907-2003

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Leo Cooper

Clean unmarked vintage book. Gently read copy, normal foxing (yellowing), mild shelf and edge wear from normal handling. Light crease to spine, light scratches on back cover. Satisfaction guaranteed!

SEA FLIGHT: A Fleet Air Arm Pilot's Story

History

Europe

Futura Publications; New Ed Edition

The FANY in Peace & War: The Story of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry 1907-2003

Pen and Sword Military

Bill Griffiths lost both hands and both eyes when he was a prisoner of the Japanese in Java in 1942. This book tells the story of how he overcame these two shattering handicaps, either one of which might have qualified him to spend the rest of his life quietly in a home for the disabled. But Bill had no intention of allowing himself to become an object of pity and it was not long after his return to civilian life that he began to make it clear that, even if he had no hands and no eyes, he still had his own two feet and he certainly intended to stand on them. Inevitably life has not been without its ups and downs, and he certainly Bill could not have got where he has without the care and devotion of Alice, his wife. Their story is one of remarkable courage, told with no trace of bitterness and with a generous helping of laughter. It is a measure of the man that Bill can end his story with the words, “I’ve been lucky”!

Blind to Misfortune: A story of Great Courage in the Face of Adversity

Griffiths, William

Pen_and_Sword

Hugh Popham joined the Fleet Air Arm in the summer of 1940 and was soon in training as a pilot at HMS Vincent and then Yeovilton; thereafter his wartime career as a naval pilot took him to the far corners of the world, notably to the Indian Ocean where he had to contend against the Japanese. His story is one of a naval fighter pilot having to do his best with hopelessly inadequate planes. First the Sea Hurricanes, and then the Supermarine Seafires, proved to be less than brilliant machines, the Seafire proving far too fragile for the rigors of carrier operations.But it is this story, incorporating the kind of detail that is missing from many wartime memoirs, that makes this book so fascinating. His war years on Indomitable, Illustrious, Campania and Striker are described with a modest charm that is so typical of a generation that adapted to their wartime roles with humor, energy and, in the end, great bravery.

Sea Flight: A Fleet Air Arm Pilot's Story

Historical

Seaforth Publishing

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