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The Long Journey Home


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The creeping shadow of the Great War and its bloody aftermath was yet to come as little Tom Kealey played happily in the fields and hop gardens around his new home. Soon the dark clouds of war gathered as a line of men marched out of the small Kentish village to join the thousands of others who were dug deep and dying in the clinging mud of the Somme.Growing into manhood, Tom developed a natural ability to handle a gun as a gamekeeper in the woods. Little did he realise how it would be put to good use when he enlisted into the "Gunners". With the Second World War looming, he would be sent to France as the German forces pushed the British army towards the blood-soaked beaches of Dunkirk.In a new theatre of war, the enemy fought harder and were more vicious than anything Tom had experienced before. Their cruelty was beyond belief and imagination.As vengeance and hatred burned deep in his heart, the welcoming flame of a candle flickered thousands of miles away in a cottage window in Kent.After all, Tom had written to his mother to tell her he would be home for Christmas.
About the Author: Alan Vaughan grew up in the small village of Boxley which nestles at the foot of the North Downs. From an early age within this rural idyll, he learnt the lore of the countryside around him and developed a lifetime passion for nature in all its form. Hidden and half forgotten in the woods and fields around his home were the decaying remains of World War II army huts and equipment. During the war the family home had been used as a billet for Land Army girls and soldiers awaiting embarkation to the Normandy beaches. It was a combination of these early memories of conflict and nature, together with the rapidly disappearance of rural ways and traditions which has influenced much of his writing. Proud to be a Man of Kent, Alan still lives close to where he was born with his wife Vivienne. They have a son and a daughter and four grandsons.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781530027187
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 539 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1530027187
  • Publisher Date: 19 Mar 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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