Wendy Warwick White

Wendy Warwick White is an ex-pat Brit who left her London home in 1995. Initially moving to Fairfax County, Virginia she said goodbye to the east coast in 2000 for sunny Arizona. Warwick-White acquired her love of early comedy from her father and grandfather at a very tender age and has been addicted ever since. Passively watching was one thing and it sufficed for the first several years but eventually curiosity got the better of Ms Warwick-White and she jumped head first into researching the films, performers and personalities she had so avidly watched. As well as an author and writer, Warwick-White is also a published sports and celebrity photographer and artist. Her silent film research and photographic collection has been used by authors and writers for books, articles and web sites. A Servant of my Country is the biographical story of a WWII soldier and the family he left at home in London. It is a personal journey from beginning to end of the war as seen through the eyes of one man, an ordinary British soldier. George "Douglas" Smith of the Gordon Highlanders, London Scottish Regiment, kept a meticulous log of his daily life during this period. In the form of a diary he tells his personal story; that of a conscripted young soldier leaving home and family for the first time. Initially Douglas protected his country's coastline in Kent before being deployed to the Middle East in preparation for war abroad. He writes about the long sea voyage from Scotland to India via South Africa; of living in the Iraqi desert, training in camps outside of Egypt and Palestine before heading to the front lines. He relates the horrors of the battle fields during the Sicily and Italian Campaigns and his time spent peacekeeping in Tito's fledgling Yugoslavia before going home. Douglas sent letters home and many survive; these give an insight into the day to day lives of his family living and working in war-torn suburban London. It encompasses the experiences of The Common Man - and Woman - both on the battle field and living on the home front during a time of war in Europe. It is a dark telling of families torn apart and the unimaginable horrors of war that this generation lived (and died) through. It is also an account of a staunch spirited generation determined to stand together, keep their collective chins up, and make the most of the little they had. wendy-warwick-white.com