Full Description
Compelling oral history, collecting personal Welsh memories of D-Day, Kindertransport, Home Guard, Women's Land Army, bombing raids, POW camp escape and more. Published to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, it gives the whole spectrum of experiences of the people of Wales during the conflict. Hanes llafar cyfareddol, sy'n casglu atgofion personol y Cymry am ddigwyddiadau D-Day, Kindertransport, y Gwarchodlu Cartref, Byddin Dir y Menywod, cyrchoedd bomio, dianc o wersyll carcharorion rhyfel a mwy. Wedi'i gyhoeddi i nodi 80 mlynedd ers Diwrnod VE, mae'n cwmpasu profiadau pobl Cymru yn ystod y rhyfel.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Road to War
1 Call to Arms
2 Evacuation
3 Refuge
4 Bombers over Wales
5 Training for War
6 The Dark Years
7 The Tide Turns
8 Evasion
9 Captured
10 D-Day: 6 June 1944
11 Maquis and Escape Lines
12 Market Garden
13 Behind the Wire in Europe and the Far East
14 Battle of The Bulge
15 Belsen and Liberation
16 The War's End
17 Post-War and Looking Back
Index
