This book's title clearly highlights one of its major elements- World War 2. However, the reader would have to access the abstract in order to understand the context in which the title page exists: WW2 being such a huge, but still very popular subject.The main target audience, of course, is academics and historians, both professional and local but also interested individuals who might wish to add to their depth of knowledge of the subject. Of particular interest is that the audience can trace the Wyrwoll family (via the oral history exercise) through major events from 1920 onwards. The family would have witnessed first-hand the Hitler regime, its sickening development and eventual demise. Of particular interest is absorbing the progress the family made following their emigration to Wales with other miners, the atmosphere the German employees had to contend with and the lengths they had to go to assimilate and never to return to their sending country-Germany.
Dr Stephen James Murray is an Honorary Fellow at the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities (The Richard Burton Centre) Swansea University, UK and, for four years, Research Fellow at the Centre for Migration Policy Research also at Swansea University. Prior to this he held the position of Senior Lecturer and MA Course Director at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University, UK and has taught at various universities in Europe, the USA and Russia. He completed his PhD in History from Warwick University, UK. His doctoral research encompassed nineteenth-century labour migration. His most recent publications include 2 monographs: Trade Union Sponsorship of UK Labour Migration to the United States, 1850s to 1880s (New York, 2015) and The Experiences of Basque and Spanish Iron Workers and their Descendants in Wales from 1900 (Newcastle, 2020) together with a number of peer-reviewed journal articles including 'Transatlantic Migration and the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in Fall River, Massachusetts, 1873-1879', Labour History Review, 78 (2013) and 'Nativism, Racism, and Job Protection: A Comparison of Late Nineteenth-Century Dowlais and Fall River Massachusetts', Llafur, 12 (2017).
