Anyone who watched The One Show this week and saw war survivor John Martin telling his story about how he survived being blown out of his plane and being held captive in the 2nd World War, could not have failed to be moved by it.

In secret, the One Show had arranged to get his memoirs published into a book as it was his one great wish. The book is called “A Raid Over Berlin” and it is available to buy from many bookshops.

It is an important book, we think, as it is a record of what happened in the war from a personal point of view and these stories should not be forgotten. Future generations need to know about the sacrifices that a whole generation made.

Unfortunately, after his story was told on the One Show, the book quickly sold out and there were reports of the price going up to £32 – obviously upsetting people as the proceeds of this book were going to charity.

There is still a high demand for this book and as we write it is currently unavailable on Amazon, eBay and Waterstones but can be ordered though some book shops with a wait time of 2 weeks.

No doubt the publicity spurred a large number of sales but the publishers obviously didn’t realise how many copies were going to be sold.

We expect that there is another print run going on right now and will be buying it as soon as it is back in stock.

If you do wish to buy it through Amazon, then this is the link – as we are Amazon affiliates, we will get a commission for any purchases made through this site but will donate 100% of any commission made on this book to the Royal British Legion.