Dennis Alder

War Was My Youth Dennis Alder

In this moving memoir of one man's war and its consequences, Dennis Alder recalls the nine years (from boy of fifteen to man of twenty-four) he spent with the British Army Signal Corps - from enlistment and training to the front line and service in West Africa. With a disarming honesty and charming simplicity, Alder recounts his experiences without hyperbole creating a frank and authentic record of one of the most traumatic periods in world history; the Second World War.