Veteran Alfred White died at the age of 98 a fortnight ago and his recollections of World War Two have been captured on tape, detailing his experiences at Dunkirk and the signing of the Armistice.
It may be that making raspberry shrug from backyard berries and drinking it down on a hot summer day; or writing poems; or even revisiting the sites of memory with
Leah Garrett’s “X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis” tells of young men from Germany, Austria, and Hungary who became British commandos.