Born in 1912 into a mining family in the North East of England, Jack Love thrived at school in spite of austere times, aiming for a better future. On leaving school, however, against family preference, he had to take work at the local coal pit. Earnings were pitiful, so he changed career as soon as a decent opportunity arose, becoming a bus conductor. The Second World War then intervened, which, in his own words, proved to be his ‘greatest adventure’. With the end of the war came another change of career, this time to teaching, capitalising upon a talent he discovered while incarcerated in various prisoner-of-war camps in German-occupied Europe. It was a vocation that lasted his lifetime. Jack’s wartime story, March By Moonlight is an epic Bomber Command tale in its own right, and is presented in honour of all the other airmen who endured a similar experience.
An exciting insight into the lives of young men thrust into battle
in the skies over Europe...This is a hair-raising tale of wartime
adventure.
*Soldier Magazine*
This is a rare example of a recent POW story that actually adds
something new to the genre, and is well worth the read.
*History of War 24/07/2019*
An incredible tale, on a par with some of Paul Brickhill's finest
accounts of the exploits of the Dam Busters and Douglas Bader,
those iconic stories that thrilled and inspired me when I was old
enough to read them. This is a tale that is crying out to be turned
into a motion picture, a tale that encapsulates everything heroic
and inspirational about the second world war.
*Books Monthly*
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