ASIN: B0060CKF52
Publisher: Barley Hole LLC
Pages: 249
1923 is the first book of Harry Leslie Smith. Smith is is the well known author of Harry's Last Stand and Love Among the Ruins who also contributes to the Guardian newspaper. 1923 chronicles Harry Leslie Smith's life from his birth in poverty in Barnsley, Yorkshire through his youth and adolescence that was punctuated with hunger and homelessness. The odyssey of 1923 ends at the end of the Second World War in Hamburg where Harry Leslie Smith was part of the RAF and attached to the allied occupation army. This book vividly describes the austerity of another time and acts as a reminder not to let Harry Leslie Smith's past become our future.Editorial ReviewsIt's a personal as well as a social history. Smith has the knack of bringing the times to life in a way that few writers can manage. It's the ability to tell a story, the knowledge of when to move on & not labour a point.--The ...
