Fire Over York
By: Charles Whiting
Edition: 3Rev Ed edition
Publisher: G.H.Smith & Son
Published: July 25, 2005
Place of publication: Yorkshire, England, UK
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780904775488
Subjects: British & Irish history: Second World War; Local history; Yorkshire; Second World War, 1939-1945
Description: Thirty odd years ago when Leo Kessler (aka Charles Whiting) published his first edition of this book (then titled York Blitz), he gave the Yorkshire Evening Press and the Yorkshire Post the account — somewhat tongue in cheek — of his own experience as a 15–year–old teenager in the ‘Great York Blitz’.
Now, six decades later, here is a new third edition of one of Mr. Whiting’s favourite books (he has written over 300 and still at it) to a new public. Whether young or old, reading it for the first time or just refreshing your own experience during those fateful years, as we celebrate more than 60 years since ‘VE Day’, we still remember them.