06/06/2026
/ Honouring D-Day 1944, “Hemyock Memories of World War Two 1939-45, Complete Edition” book is briefly on special offer. All royalties go to the village charity.
On the morning after D-Day 1944, one Hemyock resident awoke wet and cold in his foxhole in Normandy, France after an eventful night; having been landed on the wrong beach, been strafed by enemy aircraft, and even fired on by the young French wives of German soldiers.
Another resident awoke to find that his RN warship was listing badly: He had to locate & solve the problem by diving down into a cold, pitch-black flooded ship's store-room while the ship's heavy guns fired overhead.
With over 75 eyewitness stories (in their own words) of life during WWII it is available worldwide from Amazon in Kindle, paperback, & hardback.
I hope people find these fascinating eyewitness stories interesting. Collected from initially often reticent elderly participants, to mark the 50th anniversaries of VE & VJ-Days in 1995, they show how a complete cross-section of ordinary people from a small rural village rose to the challenge to do extraordinary things, at home & overseas: From the freezing Arctic, all across the UK, Europe & North Africa, to the steamy jungles of Burma & the Far East. Many people served on until 1946 & beyond before being able to return to families, look for work, housing & restart their lives.
This latest version has been completely revised, re-organised, re-edited & updated.
See the HemyockCastle.uk website.
