PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
After graduating in History from the University of Sheffield in the early 1990s, JOHN BROOM pursued a career in teaching, firstly in his chosen subject and latterly with children with autism. A chance inheritance of family papers eleven years ago prompted his interest in the spiritual and ethical issues of the twentieth-century world wars. John is a lifelong cricket fan who traces his love of the game back to day-long Test Match Special coverage at home in the 1970s, trips to the Scarborough Cricket Festival and the Circle Ground at Hull, and his first visit to a Test match -a certain occasion at Headingley in 1981. John has been awarded a PhD on Christianity in the British Armed Services by the University of Durham, and is the author of seven published books: _Cricket in the Second World War: The Grim Test_ (Pen & Sword, 2021), _Reported Missing in the Great War: 100 years of searching for the truth_ (Pen & Sword, 2020); _Faithful in Adversity: The Royal Army Medical Corps in the Second World War_ (Pen & Sword, 2019); _Opposition to the Second World War: Conscience, Resistance and Service in Britain, 1933 45_ (Pen & Sword, 2018); _A History of Cigarette and Trade Cards_ (Pen & Sword, 2018); _Fight the Good Fight: Voices of Faith from the Second World War_ (Pen & Sword, 2016); _Fight the Good Fight: Voices of Faith from the First World War_ (Pen & Sword, 2015).
