07/06/2026
/ 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 this 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 in a DUKW, been strafed by enemy aircraft, and even fired on by the young French wives abandoned by 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.
