A01=Robert Douglas
Author_Robert Douglas
biography of RAF
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historical
memoir
RAF memoir
series
Product details
- ISBN 9780340898444
- Weight: 304g
- Dimensions: 135 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 03 May 2007
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his return to Glasgow and life down the pit. Once more, Robert's fantastic memory for people, places and anecdotes, combined with an ear for individual voices and the brilliant ability to evoke a bygone sense of community, will enchant his readers and sometimes appal them with the brutality of conditions he experienced.
Now retired, Robert Douglas worked as a prison officer and an electricity chargehand. Although he has lived in Northumberland for many years, he says you can take the boy out of Glasgow, but you'll never take Glasgow out of the boy.
