Almost everybody knows about the London Blitz. Hardly anyone outside Britain knows about those other cities, small towns and hamlets, schools and little shops, that were bombed in World War II, or those people who were machine gunned while tending their 'Victory Gardens'. Susan Mayall's memoir, "All the Pennies in the World," recalls these forgotten acts of war, and how it was for her family both before and during those times.
Born in 1933, when Hitler came to power in Germany, her happy early childhood was overshadowed by the fear of war. Her father, a Royal Marine officer, was...
Almost everybody knows about the London Blitz. Hardly anyone outside Britain knows about those other cities, small towns and hamlets, schools and l...
