Growing up in Sussex
Subtitle: from schoolboy to soldier
By: Gerry Wells
Series: Reminiscence; Isis reminiscence series
Publisher: ISIS; ISIS Large Print Books; Reminiscence Large Print
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780753195413; 9780753195406
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Young men; Biography; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: "[A] memoir [which] starts with a boy's journey through the early years of the 1930s - days of the rag and bone man, street lamplighters and in the background Hitler. Then life gets real - at school where cane and cricket bat rule and even more real with army call-up and training. In 1944/45 comes the crunch of combat in Operation Overlord. and after all that with his ears still ringing, comes the blessed call of demob and a taste of new delights, finding a woman daft enough to marry him before settling near his work on a farm to start life as a man."--Publisher description.