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- ISBN 9781903056387
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 2013
- Publisher: Brown Dog Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In this memoir he vividly describes living in London at that time, and how he witnessed the almost daily air battles over the city and the devastation caused by enemy bombing. Having enlisted in the army at the age of seventeen, Charles took part in the invasion of Normandy, and gives a first-hand account of the bitter fighting. He went on to be wounded in the attack across the River Rhine. Charles's recollections give us a true and fascinating insight into the life of a young working-class man during an important period in Britain's history.
This book is an account of one individual's participation in a dramatic period of British social, economic and military history. The following narrative is a series of my memories from childhood to the end of my army life at the age of 22, at the end of the Second World War in 1945. I was born in 1923, just five years since Great Britain had signed a peace treaty to finalise the end of the most terrible and brutal war ever. I was born in London, to a family of Irish ancestry, although my parents were born English. The British never remotely ever considered or imagined that within twenty years after the 1918 Armistice their country would again be embroiled in another cruel and costly world war and I, like millions more, would be involved in it. The time of my birth was a period when Britain was in the process of recovering from the Great War. Britain was left bankrupt, owing billions of dollars to America, a debt that took a further eighty years to be cleared. America, which, after taking three years to enter the war after the British had been fighting Germany and sustaining tremendous casualties, became the richest country in the world, while Britain became the opposite - pitiably poor. Great Britain fought in both wars to defend our democratic way of life, and that of the rest of Europe and America. We paid a very high price for that which, today, I feel has not been truly appreciated by the people and governments of these countries, particularly France and America.
