'50s
1950s
A01=Alf Townsend
aircraftman second class
alf townend
alf townsend
Author_Alf Townsend
aviation history
british army memoir
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fifties
military memoir
national service
north london slum
RAF 100
raf memoir
raf national service remembered
Product details
- ISBN 9780750941549
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 172 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 24 Aug 2006
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Between 1945 and 1963, over two and a half million eighteen year olds were called up for national service. Alf Townsend was one of them, and here he tells his story - the highs and lows of life as a lowly Aircraftman Second Class in the early '50s. Before national service intervened, Alf was 'heading down the criminal road at top speed', having grown up in a north London slum, where money was short and local villains were revered. This book is a warts and all account of Alf Townsend's time in the RAF, when he was transplanted into a completely new world of misfits and officer types, rogues and entertainers, all amusingly described in the author's inimitable style.
Alf Townsend has been a London cabbie for forty years. His first book for Sutton Publishing, Cabbie, was published in 2003. Alf lives in Hampstead.
