# Keep Smiling Through

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- Book: [Keep Smiling Through](https://www.bookquiver.com/vera-lynn/keep-smiling-through) ([Keep Smiling Through.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/vera-lynn/keep-smiling-through.md))
- Authors: [Vera Lynn](https://www.bookquiver.com/vera-lynn), [Virginia Lewis-Jones](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-lewis-jones)
- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-17-8746-011-9
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2018-03-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the year of her 100th birthday, Dame Vera Lynn's fascinating and life-affirming wartime memoir from the forces' sweetheart's of her adventures entertaining the troops in far-flung Burma. 'I was just twenty-seven years old when I went to Burma. It was an experience that changed my life for ever. Up until that time I had not really travelled anywhere at all, apart from one touring visit to Holland with a band I was singing with before the war, and I had certainly never been in an aeroplane. But I wanted to make a difference, to do my bit.' And she did. Written with her daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones this is a powerful and life-affirming account of the time she spent with troops in wartime Burma. Based, in part on a diary she kept, alongside unpublished personal letters and photographs from surviving veterans and their families, it explores why it was such a life-defining event for her and shows how her presence helped the soldiers, airmen and others who heard her sing.