We Had a Great Time at West Barnes Library... By Joy Kluver
We had a great time on 20th October at West Barnes Library with our first in-person author event since January 2020. It was so nice to have an audience! David Young and Amanda Lees came to talk about their new WW2 books. Death in Blitz City is set in David Young's hometown of Hull. After London, it was one of the cities most badly bombed during the war. The Silence Before Dawn is based in France, in particular, near Lyon. Amanda Lees wanted to focus on the female spies from the SOE who were sent to France to work with the Resistance. I wish I could tell you everything that David and Amanda said but my brain is like a sieve these days. So, I'll give you some of my personal highlights from the evening. One question I asked was about research and if there had been any surprises. David Young includes American GIs in his book and he was amazed to discover that the Americans had their own prison in the UK during the war. More than that, they dispensed their own justic...