Ma Shaw"s Wars ...and after the king"s speech, the blitz kidz A colourful, incident-packed story of one of the very limited generation of women whose lives were dragged into two world wars, whose menfolk were treated like cannon fodder...fighting, and sometimes dying, in the merciless action of both 20th century conflicts with Germany. And two young sons, the author and his brother, reared during the ferocity of the Birmingham blitz during the Battle of Britain. Ma Shaw"s Wars is not a work of fiction. With its roots in poverty-torn Ireland, all of the inspirational story of battling against sometimes unbelievable odds, is as accurate as the writer could make it, as a social document describing life in days gone by and how different it all was in contrast to the 21st century. This segment of a normal family"s history contains action, betrayal, courage, endurance and hope for the future. DENNIS SHAW has been a working journalist for more than 60 years, since beginning as a...