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King´s Cross Kid: A London Childhood between the Wars
Victor Gregg
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Description for King´s Cross Kid: A London Childhood between the Wars
Hardback.
Ninety-three-year-old Victor Gregg has had a rich and fascinating life. King's Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the scallywag years of late childhood began. Then, after the years of street gangs and run-ins with the law, Vic leaves school at fourteen and his real adventures start, and with them a working-class apprenticeship in survival. Ending with his enlistment in the army ... Read more
Ninety-three-year-old Victor Gregg has had a rich and fascinating life. King's Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the scallywag years of late childhood began. Then, after the years of street gangs and run-ins with the law, Vic leaves school at fourteen and his real adventures start, and with them a working-class apprenticeship in survival. Ending with his enlistment in the army ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408840504
SKU
9781408840504
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Victor Gregg
Victor Gregg was born in London in 1919 and joined the army in 1937, serving first in the Rifle Brigade in Palestine and North Africa, notably at the Battle of Alamein, and then with the Parachute Regiment, at the Battle of Arnhem. As a prisoner of war he survived the bombing of Dresden to be repatriated in 1946, and now ... Read more
Reviews for King´s Cross Kid: A London Childhood between the Wars
Evocative, detailed and unsentimental – gets us wonderfully close-up to the London of the 1930s viewed through the unblinking eyes of a working-class boy relishing every new experience
David Kynaston, author of Austerity Britain
An urchin’s story that does for London what The Road to Nab End did for Lancashire ... a vivid recreation of a street life ... Read more
David Kynaston, author of Austerity Britain
An urchin’s story that does for London what The Road to Nab End did for Lancashire ... a vivid recreation of a street life ... Read more