ASIN: B004XRC1QW
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 327
With "A London War Child Crosses the Ocean", author and adventurer Lawrence Bohme begins the whimsically told but scrupulously faithful story of his first 41 years - entitled My Very Long Youth because "due to a force beyond my control I only started growing up, or calming down, after that age". The result is simultaneously a retrospective diary, an eye-witness history book, a personal collection of his own drawings and photographs, a one-way, slow-motion travel guide, a movie made up of stills and, to put it politely, in his own wry words, “a partially contrite confession of compulsive concupiscence"… Born mid-war in a southern suburb of London, to a German half-Jewish ex-tramp become war document translator and his stenographer-become-wife, our "little English gentleman", having survived a V2 rocket attack that blows the front off his Croydon bungalow, immigrates with his family to a ...
