twenty second Apr 2025
We’re giving two fortunate readers the possibility to win a duplicate of We’ve All Life Earlier than Us, A Love Story of the Second World Battle edited by Caroline Cecil Bose.
the prize
Twenty-five-year-old Bob Keddie died on 16 Might 1942 when his Catalina disappeared over the Norwegian Sea. He had been flying a reconnaissance patrol for the safety of convoys carrying important provides to the Russians. No hint of him, his 9 crew members, or his plane was ever discovered. For Diana, his younger spouse who was 4 months pregnant, the disappearance introduced an abrupt and agonising finish to a two-year love story, harmless and intense, performed out largely in letters overflowing with tenderness and anticipation for a future free from the calls for of warfare.
We’ve All Life Earlier than Us: A Love Story of the Second World Battle is a singular assortment of letters and diaries that, on the one hand, charts in fascinating element Bob Keddie’s development via each stage of RAF coaching to his fateful command of a Catalina flying boat at RAF Sullom Voe, and on the opposite, tells the entire, fantastically intimate and unguarded story of affection between two younger folks, from shy, keen beginnings, eager to impress, to unbridled longing and rage on the warfare for conserving them aside.
Superbly edited by Caroline Cecil Bose who grew up in Essex, it was her uncle, a embellished pilot, who first piqued Caroline’s curiosity within the Second World Battle.
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The competitors closes on Monday 12 Might 2025 at midnight. The winner will probably be introduced on our competitors winners web page. Good luck everybody!
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