My Brother

by Charles Reid

Overview

This is a story of sibling rivalry, poverty and war--of unrequited love and a Canadian dream but much more than that, it is a story that takes today’s reader through the most momentous period of our history--a time when millions, having barely survived the misery and deprivation of the greatest financial crisis in history, were almost immediately plunged into the greatest military conflict in world history.
Being set in London’s east end, that bore the brunt of Hitler’s Blitz serves in many ways to bring the sacrifices of that time into sharp focus giving the reader an insight into how the people were forced to deal with tragedy and loss in a way that today’s generation might find almost callous.
But then it was a time that personified Shakespeare’s immortal words--”The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” and how that outrageous fortune can send us down paths and in directions we never dream of.
Above all, it is a story told by someone who lived it.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151376785
Publisher:	FriesenPress
Publication date:	04/01/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	559 KB

About the Author

The place Charles was born in had the dubious distinction of being one of the poorest in a notoriously poor part of London’s east end. It also, during the London blitz, earned the equally dubious honour of being Hitler’s favourite target.
His personal experience of the tragedies that unfolded day and night bring a hard reality to the stories that today’s generation may see, as almost indifference--but the luxury of grief and mourning were not theirs to have and both civilians and military alike had to find their own way of coping.
Charles’ motivation for his first book came to life, when, on arriving in Calgary as an immigrant he was stunned to find that Calgarians were completely unaware that one of their own was the Royal Air Force’s greatest ace of the early war years and the Battle of Britain, and so “Hurricanes over London” was born.
He followed this with “Chasing the Arrow” the story of Canada’s super fighter that ‘died’ for political expedience. His third book “Ghost of Heroes Past”, which was nominated for a BC award, recounts the stories of many great, and unsung, Canadian heroes from two World Wars.