Friendship in a Time of War

My father's autobiography is now available on Amazon in paperback and on Kindle.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Friendship-Time-1939-1946-Dallas-Allardice/dp/1508644098/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Friendship in a Time of War

Friendship in a Time of War is the autobiography of Dallas Allardice; former Commando, Scottish Rugby Internationalist, P.E. teacher at Aberdeen Grammar School, Assistant Rector at Dundee High School, artist and drystane dyker.

Book Summary:

Friendship in a Time of War covers a young man’s journey from the playing fields of school and the farmyards of North East Scotland to his training with the elite commandos and actions in the Second World War in Norway, Malta, the Middle East and Libya.

While the actions undertaken were remarkable, this book is not so much about the war, as about the people encountered there and the great and selfless actions of members of extended families, who risked everything to protect the author as a fugitive behind enemy lines.

This is about friendships, which were made, that span the generations. This has nothing to do with the Hollywood films, which were made about the key engagement of the book. This is about ordinary people who met under the most difficult of circumstances and how they rose to the occasion in a victory of humanity over evil forces.

I edited the book and managed to track down many of the protagonists and their relatives in the book and have recorded those meetings in the appendix.