In the year of her 100th birthday, Dame Vera Lynn's fascinating and life-affirming wartime memoir from the forces' sweetheart's of her adventures entertaining the troops in far-flung Burma.
Dame Vera Lynn was born Vera Margaret Welch on 20 March 1917 and
adopted the stage name of Vera Lynn at the age of eleven. She was
already an established singer by the time the war broke out in
1939, but during the Second World War had enormous success with
songs like 'We'll Meet Again', 'The White Cliffs of Dover' and 'A
Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square'. She continued to have a
successful career after the war, hosted her own variety TV series
on BBC1 in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and was a guest on a
number of other shows including the Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show
in 1972. She also became involved in many different charities. She
became a Dame in 1975 and was awarded the Burma Star in 1985. In
2009 she published an autobiography, Some Sunny Day, which became a
number-one bestseller in hardback. In 2016 she was appointed Member
of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to
entertainment and charity.
Virginia Lewis-Jones is Dame Vera Lynn's daughter. She was born in
1946 and for a time accompanied her mother on tour as her dresser.
She has had many careers including working in a fashion house,
working for Warner Bros Records in California and as a researcher
at the BBC. She was at the BBC for many years and worked on various
shows including Parkinson, Crackerjack and the royal concerts. She
later trained as a complementary therapist in reflexology and
holistic massage with aromatherapy, and has her own complementary
therapy business alongside running her mother's music company. She
is also the vice-president of the Dame Vera Lynn Children's
Charity. She lives in Ditchling, East Sussex with her husband Tom,
who is a retired RAF pilot, and her mother.
a book that is valuable to us all…definitely for everyone
*Frost Magazine*
one of the 15 best music books of 2017
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