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Vera and Eddy were just one working-class couple among millions caught up in the fury of the Second World War. Later, they used to talk and talk of their experiences. One day author Sam Smith decided to listen. This remarkable book is the result of countless recorded interviews with Vera and Eddy, his in-laws, and paints an unforgettably human and strikingly real picture of how two small people emerged, scorched but complete, from the flames of the bloodiest conflict in the history of mankind. Vera and Eddy lead us through the pain and the outlandish, sometimes ghoulish humour, the desperate hopes and stark terrors of times when doorsteps and cinemas, invasion beaches and battlefields were all equally in the front line. Days when uncertainty was a constant companion and mutilation and death were never more than a moment away. So expertly does Smith apply his no-frills narrative style, that the reader can hear the shattering explosions as pregnant Vera dodges the bombs blitzing her streets, and feel the hot breath of shrapnel whipping past Eddy's ears in the killing zones of Normandy and Holland. Smith's book reads as one of the most gripping, frantically paced war novels ever written. What elevates it from the merely great to the truly magnificent is that every single word is true.

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