Author: TO WIN A WAR,
Title: BOMBSITES AND LOLLIPOPS - My 1950s East End Childhood.
Description: John Blake, London, ND (circa 2015), reprint, trade paperback, xvi, 240pp, half tone photo ills. in text, photo pictorial upper wrapper, Briitish social history of the late 1940s and early 1950s, in the East End of London, with WW2 over millions were startiung to wonder if peacetime was much of an improvement on the war, with food shortages, endless queues, power cuts, rationing and freezing winters, making it extremely difficult for men returning from the battlefronts to families they barely knew to make ends meet. The experiences of East Enders living in the remains of bombed out buildings in Hackney, of one family living the high life on the proceeds of illegal betting and the black market, while others did not, rationing was still in force, the black market was the only way to obtain some essentials, the Hyams family had a retinue of servants from a chauffeur, cleaner and an army iof delivery men, the author revisits her childhood world where money was no object, grwing up in a household underpinned by illegal betting and bribery, partying with the notorious Kray twins, the author's parents were funded by illegal betting and appeared to be under sort sort of underworld protection, edges tanned, small abrasionm to bar code lower wrapper, near fine,
Keywords: miscellaneous autobiography london east end ww2 home front rationuing black market hackney british social history kray brothers
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Title: BOMBSITES AND LOLLIPOPS - My 1950s East End Childhood.
Description: John Blake, London, ND (circa 2015), reprint, trade paperback, xvi, 240pp, half tone photo ills. in text, photo pictorial upper wrapper, Briitish social history of the late 1940s and early 1950s, in the East End of London, with WW2 over millions were startiung to wonder if peacetime was much of an improvement on the war, with food shortages, endless queues, power cuts, rationing and freezing winters, making it extremely difficult for men returning from the battlefronts to families they barely knew to make ends meet. The experiences of East Enders living in the remains of bombed out buildings in Hackney, of one family living the high life on the proceeds of illegal betting and the black market, while others did not, rationing was still in force, the black market was the only way to obtain some essentials, the Hyams family had a retinue of servants from a chauffeur, cleaner and an army iof delivery men, the author revisits her childhood world where money was no object, grwing up in a household underpinned by illegal betting and bribery, partying with the notorious Kray twins, the author's parents were funded by illegal betting and appeared to be under sort sort of underworld protection, edges tanned, small abrasionm to bar code lower wrapper, near fine,
Keywords: miscellaneous autobiography london east end ww2 home front rationuing black market hackney british social history kray brothers
Price: GBP 5.50 = appr. US$ 7.85 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 45806
- Book number: 45806
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