Keep Smiling Through

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.

'I was just twenty-seven years old when I went to Burma. It was an experience that changed my life for ever. Up until that time I had not really travelled anywhere at all, apart from one touring visit to Holland with a band I was singing with before the war, and I had certainly never been in an aeroplane. But I wanted to make a difference, to do my bit.'

And she did.

Written with her daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones this is a powerful and life-affirming account of the time she spent with troops in wartime Burma. Based, in part on a diary she kept, alongside unpublished personal letters and photographs from surviving veterans and their families, it explores why it was such a life-defining event for her and shows how her presence helped the soldiers, airmen and others who heard her sing.

In anul implinirii a 100 de ani, fascinantul memoriu al razboiului Dame Vera Lynn din aventurile sale de dragoste ale fortelor, care distreaza trupele din Birmania indepartata. „Aveam doar douazeci si sapte de ani cand am plecat in Birmania. A fost o experienta care mi-a schimbat viata pentru totdeauna.