Book description
On the morning of 24th February 1944 following a devastating
Luftwaffe raid, Donald Wheal and his family were homeless refugees
with bulging suitcases and faces blackened by soot blast. In
World's End, the first part of his bestselling childhood
autobiography, he told of his upbringing during the Blitz in the rough
working class community which was Chelsea's World's End. The morning
after the World's End bombing he realized that the ties that had bound
him to the past were now broken -- a new world and a new fate awaited him.
In White City he tells the story of how his family, now
menaced by the V-bombs and rockets that were the last stage of
London's war, were re-settled in a anonymous London suburb where later
his adolescence was to began amidst post war privation, sexual
yearning and first love. In these dark years the quest for new
experiences took him all around Britain and finally to war-ravaged
France. A testing period of National Service in Germany and Italy
completed his journey to adulthood.
White City is as funny, heartbreaking and engaging as
World's End
Donald James Wheal is the real name of Donald James, the critically
acclaimed thriller writer of
Monstrum
,
The Fortune Teller
and
Vadim
. As Donald Wheal he has also written
The Fall of the Russian Empire
and
The Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich
. Donald James Wheal is the author of
World's End
.
