Book description
This is a story spanning some of the most turbulent decades in
recent world history. James Marsh was born during the first year of
the Second World War and many of his infant years were spent in
air-raid shelters outside his home. Bombs rained down from the German
Luftwaffe as they tried to destroy the city of Southampton, which has
now been James' home for more than sixty years. The gritty
determination, community spirit and, above all, the humour, with which
the local community faced the difficulties of war, have stayed with
James throughout his life. Moving on to describe the harsh lessons
learned in 1940s and '50s schooling and subsequently describing his
teenage years in the merchant navy, this book explores how growing up
in the post-war years was both a challenge and a lot of fun.
James Marsh was born in Southampton at the beginning of the
Second World War. As an adult he joined the Merchant Navy, and also
spent a stint at Eastleigh Railway. Now retired, he has written a
series of ten novels about a group of boys growing up after the war,
and currently writes both fiction and non-fiction. James is a member
of Flair for Words and also Writing Buddies, a group for writers in Southampton.
