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An engaging firsthand account of growing up in London in World War 2, the appeasement of Hitler by the Government and the Foreign Office, the Munich Crisis, the Battle of Britain, and daily bombardment by drones and rocket projectiles, by a popular modern historian who specializes in describing what he knows; war.
Sommario
CONTENTS
1929
1. A Family Home. 11
2. Hard Times and the Other Half. 18
3. Positive Thinking. 23
4. Family. 29
5. Our Moral Compass. 38
1933
6. The Primary Question. 48
7. All Quiet on the Western Front. 56
8. A Search for My Father. 61
9. The Japanese Girl. 69
10. The Happiest Days of Your Life. 73
11. Swings and Roundabouts. 83
12. Town and Gown. 93
1938
13. A Game of Charades. 100
14. Creative Arts. 117
15. Performing Arts. 123
16. Broad and Alien is the World. 123
17. A Bohemian Life. 135
1940
18. The Seduction of Art. 142
19. Theatre. 150
20. Weekly Repertory. 160
21. The Battle of Britain. 168
1942
22. Life is a Cabaret. 180
23. The Humane Killer. 187
24. Breakout. 196
25. A Crooked Smile. 202
26. Greasepaint. 212
1944
27. Last Thoughts. 223
28. Golden Lads. 233
29. Postwar Europe. 240
30. Stepping Stones to Power. 246
Notes. 262
About Cune Press. 269
Author. 270
Info autore
John Harte is a former stage actor, playwright, and investigative journalist, who became a management consultant and director of companies in the UK, South Africa and Canada. His memoir of an adolescent searching for identity and purpose in an iconic London which has disappeared forever, shows us how Londoners behaved under the onslaught of German aerial rockets and bombing attacks. It should long remain a thought provoking record of Britain's "great generation" in World War Two.
Riassunto
An engaging firsthand account of growing up in London in World War 2, the appeasement of Hitler by the Government and the Foreign Office, the Munich Crisis, the Battle of Britain, and daily bombardment by drones and rocket projectiles, by a popular modern historian who specializes in describing what he knows; war.
