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It's summer 1939 and Europe is a pan of milk coming to the boil heated by the furious expansionism of Hitler's Nazi Germany. National Service has been brought back and despite Neville Chamberlain's promise of 'peace in our time' everyone knows that war is inevitable.Ronnie Turner, a south coast holiday camp sous chef, knew it. He had already joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) and was no doubt licking his lips at the prospect of having "a smack at the Boche."Like all wartime service personnel Ronnie wasn't supposed to keep a diary in case it fell into enemy hands. But Ronnie never did like to take orders and as his nephew looking back from nearly eighty years after he recorded his experiences in words and photographs, I can only marvel at what he went through.This isn't a hero's story. It's a tale of an ordinary bloke, plucked from an ordinary job and thrown into a war to 'have a smack at the Boche'.




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