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When the boys came marching home : true stories of the men who went to war and the women and children who took them back
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When the boys came marching home : true stories of the men who went to war and the women and children who took them back
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My father was a POW. He was captured at Dieppe ( August 1942) and released in early May 1945 by the advancing American Army. My father never spoke one word about his life in the camp. A photo taken at his brother's wedding in 1945 shows how emaciated he was. He weighed 87 pounds when he came home. At the end of the war families who survived the years of separation looked forward to a time of well being. Unfortunately men scarred mentally or physically by their experiences faced children who had never seen their fathers. Women who had learned to run their own lives were unwilling to revert to their former roles. There was an increase in divorces 60,000 in Britain in 1947 alone. Some of the stories are incredibly sad while others are hopeful. The book ends on a happy note. Yvonne Garey writes of the Christmas of 1945. Things were very austere. Her dad spotted two German POWS walking in front of the Garey home. He invited the two soldiers, Heinz and Fritz, into their home for dinner! God Bless the Brits! about the author Acclaimed cartoonist Ben Wicks was a pint-sized cockney who never lost his accent or his sense of humor. Wicks make a name for himself in Canada, not only as a cartoonist, but as a journalist, TV personality, author, entrepreneur and humanitarian. A man of cheeky hammer who brought laughter into the lives of many, Wicks began as a newspaper cartoonist and went on to publish 43 books of his works. One of his many friends, Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry, said that in his experience, "everyone who knew Ben felt better about life and themselves simply by being in his company." Wicks was born in London, England in 1926. As a child, he was evacuated to the country during wartime, but at 14 returned to the city and the bombings and got his first job as a shipping clerk. He took evening classes at an art school. "They told me I should take up something else, so I quit. "They were right, I still can't draw," he said, years after becoming a highly successful cartoonist. Wicks has many occupations, both in England and Canada, including barrow boy, purse maker, electrician's mate, clog maker, window cleaner, janitor, milkman, army musician and weekly newspapers subscription salesman. When his term in the army was almost over, Wicks picked up a book that taught him how to draw and market cartoons. "You were suppose to start off by sending them to the top paying magazines and work down," he recalled. "So I sent off six to the top one, Saturday Evening Post." The magazine wrote back saying they never took work from unknowns but if I could supply letters of reference explaining who I was, they'd take three. It took me about five minutes to fake some letters of reference. It was the beginning of a great career. He drew cartoons for western newspapers and in 1963 moved to Toronto to work for the now-defunct Toronto Telegram. Over the years, he drew for the Toronto Telegram Syndicate, The Saturday Evening Post, the Toronto Star, and the Toronto Star Syndicate, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and King Features NY. His cartoon strip, The Outcasts, appeared in 52 Canadian newspapers and his single cartoon ran daily in 84 Canadian and 100 US newspapers. Wicks later developed his own TV program, The World of Wicks, interviewing such personalities such as Ingrid Bergman, Michael Caine, Sir Edmund Hillary and Charlton Heston. A prolific author, cartoonist and entertainer, he wrote and illustrated numerous books, including Ben Wicks' Canada, Ben Wicks' Etiquette and Ben Wicks' Women, and wrote a series of books to promote family literacy, including Born to Read and Write and Count. Wicks has also written a number of books concerning the effects of World War II on ordinary people's lives, including No Time to Wave Goodbye (1988), The Day They Took the Children (1989) and Nell's War (1990). Ben teamed up with his wife, a citizenship court judge, to establish several charitable foundations to fight poverty, illiteracy and malnutrition. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1986. Wicks's autobiography, Master of None: The Story of Me Life. |
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