One Musician's War

He had one of the more unglamorous jobs in the Second World War, but self-taught violinist George Warner''s letters home from the North African and Italian campaigns - in which he served as a dispatch rider for the Royal Army Service Corps - provide an enthralling, humane account of Europe''s darkest years. Writing home to ''Dearest Maudie'' and his young daughters, who had been evacuated from Ea...