King''s Cross Kid: A Childhood between the Wars

Name: King''s Cross Kid: A Childhood between the Wars
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Price: 14.10 EUR
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English

By (author): Victor Gregg

Victor Gregg, born in 1919, has had a rich and fascinating life. King's Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the scallywag years of late childhood began. Then, after the years of street gangs and run-ins with the law, Vic leaves school at fourteen and his real adventures start, and with them a working-class apprenticeship in survival. Ending with his enlistment in the army on the day of his eighteenth birthday, this prequel to the bestselling Rifleman will appeal to the many readers who were charmed by Victor Gregg's engaging, honest and warm voice. See more

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Weight: 216g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 22 May 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781408840511

About Victor Gregg

Victor Gregg was born in London in 1919 and joined the army in 1937 serving first in the Rifle Brigade in Palestine and North Africa notably at the Battle of Alamein and then with the Parachute Regiment at the Battle of Arnhem. As a prisoner of war he survived the bombing of Dresden to be repatriated in 1946. The story of his adult years Rifleman was published by Bloomsbury in 2011 and the prequel Kings Cross Kid in 2013. Both were co-written with Rick Stroud. Victor Gregg died in 2021 aged 102. Rick Stroud is a writer and film director. As well as working with Vic Gregg on Rifleman he is the author of The Book of the Moon and The Phantom Army of Alamein: How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel. He lives in London.