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When I Came Home
George Brinley Evans
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Description for When I Came Home
Paperback. Coming back home from the Far East after years serving in Burma, George returns to South Wales to deal with ferociously Communist self-appointed commissars of the local colliery, and getting enough black market coupons off Jack Bach the butcher's wife to buy a suit and marry beautiful, dark-haired Peggy the Papers. Num Pages: ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 312.
Coming back home from the Far East after years serving in Burma, George Brinley Evans returns to his home in Banwen, Dulais Valley, South Wales, to find that the ex-servicemen are being treated as traitors - 'Churchill's army' - by the ferociously Communist self-appointed commissars of the local colliery. But that's not all George has on his plate. There's the fish and chip shop, the ice cream round, the Billiard Hall, the boxing club, Saturday afternoon football in bombed-out Swansea, and getting enough black market coupons off Jack Bach the butcher's wife to buy a suit ... Read more
Coming back home from the Far East after years serving in Burma, George Brinley Evans returns to his home in Banwen, Dulais Valley, South Wales, to find that the ex-servicemen are being treated as traitors - 'Churchill's army' - by the ferociously Communist self-appointed commissars of the local colliery. But that's not all George has on his plate. There's the fish and chip shop, the ice cream round, the Billiard Hall, the boxing club, Saturday afternoon football in bombed-out Swansea, and getting enough black market coupons off Jack Bach the butcher's wife to buy a suit ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908069955
SKU
V9781908069955
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About George Brinley Evans
George Brinley Evans was born in 1925. Aged 14, he began working in the Banwen Colliery in 1939 and then served in Burma with the 12th Army during the second world war. During his working life he became an established painter and despite losing an eye in an accident, also began to develop as a sculptor and writer. He published ... Read more
Reviews for When I Came Home
'He has the gift of story telling.' John Idris Jones