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BLIND TO MISFORTUNE by Bill Griffiths with Hugh Popham
Bill
Griffiths lost both hands and both eyes when he was a prisoner of
the Japanese in Java in 1942. This book tells the story of how he overcame
these two shattering handicaps, either one of which might have qualified
him to spend the rest of his life quietly in a home for the disabled.
But Bill had no intention of allowing himself to become an object of pity
and it was not long after his return to civilian life that he began to
make it clear that, even if he had no hands and no eyes, he still had
his own two feet and he certainly intended to stand on them. Inevitably
life has not been without its ups and downs and certainly Bill could not
have got where he has without the care and devotion of his wife Alice.
Their story is one of remarkable courage, told with no trace of bitterness
and with a generous helping of laughter. It is a measure of the man that
Bill can end his story with the words, 'I've been lucky' !
Hugh Popham, poet, novelist, military historian and documentary writer, published his first book, a collection of poems, in 1944 when he was still a fighter pilot in the Fleet Air Arm. Since then, he has written four novels, an account of his wartime flying, two regimental histories, a substantial history of British naval aviation - Into Wind and various other books which include A Thirst for the Sea, An Account of the Sailing Career of Erskine Childers based on Childers' original log books and F.A.N.Y. - The Story of the Women's Transport Service.
ISBN-10: 184415372X
ISBN-13: 978-1844153725
To purchase contact -
Ms Nicki Hall
PA to Chief Executive & Chairman
St Dunstan's
12-14 Harcourt Street
London
W1H 4HD
Cost £10.00 inc. P & P