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The Glory and the Shame: Some events can never be forgotten…
Harry Bowling
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Description for The Glory and the Shame: Some events can never be forgotten…
Paperback. A heartwarming and compelling story of a community in its finest and yet darkest hour, in which most, but not all, behaved heroically. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FT; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 336. Clean copy with some reader wear.
On the night of Saturday 10th May 1941, amidst the horror of the devastation caused by enemy bombers, Joe Carey and Charlie Duggan risked their lives to save people trapped in an air-raid shelter. Despite their efforts, six men and women died.
It's now 1947 and the inhabitants of Totterdown Street are trying to rebuild their lives. The post-war years are proving to be difficult and, already faced with a violent factory strike, the close-knit inhabitants of the street must also cope with news which not only exposes the glory of the past but the shame as well.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780755340323
SKU
KTM0000576
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Harry Bowling
Harry was born in 1931 in a back street off the Tower Bridge Road. Only when his own children began to ask questions about the war, did Harry realise how many stories he had to tell. He became known as 'the King of Cockney sagas', and he wrote eighteen bestselling novels of London life. After Harry died in 1999, the ... Read more
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