When Daddy Came Home

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<p><b>Compelling and moving real-life accounts of the impact on family life of the return of the troops at the end of the Second World War.</b></p><p>Summer 1945. Britain was in jubilant mood. At last, the war was over. Soon the men would be coming home. Then everything would be fine: life would get back to normal.</p><p>Or would it? Six long years of war had profoundly changed family life. For years, Dad had been a khaki figure in a photograph on the wall, a crumpled letter from overseas, an occasional visitor on weekend leave. Now he was here to stay, a stranger in a group that had learned to live without him - and was not always prepared to have him back.</p><p>Most homecomings were joyful, never-to-be-forgotten moments of humour and hope. Others were hard. And there was no one to deal with the tears and the trauma.</p><p>It would take hope and courage for families to live and love together again.</p>

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<p><b>Barry Turner</b>is a writer and historian. His latest books are<i>Beacon for Change</i>about the 1951 Festival of Britain and<i>Outpost of Occupation</i>on the German occupation of the Channel Islands. He has just completed his seventeenth year as editor of<i>Statesmans Yearbook</i>. He lives in London and south-west France.</p><p><b>Tony Rennell</b>was a senior editorial executive on the<i>Sunday Times</i>and the<i>Mail on Sunday</i>before switching to writing 15 years ago. He is the author and co-author of seven books, of which<i>When Daddy Came Home</i>was the first. He writes regularly on a variety of subjects for the<i>Daily Mail</i>. He lives in Suffolk. He was born in 1947, the son of a father who came home but never spoke about his war. When I told him I was writing this book, he was silent. After he died, I was told that he had read it and, most unusually for him, wept. But, to me, typically, he said not a word.</p>

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