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World's End
Oct 31, 2024 5:24 AM

Author:Donald James

World's End

World's End is the story of Donald Wheal¹s childhood in Chelsea's World's End at the height of the Second World War.

Not for him the privileged bohemian world of Chelsea a few hundred yards away. Descended from rural immigrants, ladies of the night and bare-knuckle fighters, Donald Wheal¹s upbringing took place amidst grimy factories and generating plants, illegal street bookmakers, dog tracks, tenements and street walkers who plied their trade in Piccadilly and Soho.

World's End is the story of how he and his family struggled free from this underclass. It is also an individual history of the Second World War, of a small boy¹s grappling with the bitter separation of evacuation, the return to an already battered London, the wonderland of bomb-damaged houses to play in, and the nights of terror as the Blitz returned.

Reviews

'An overwhelmingly honest account of one boy's wartime memories'

—— The Good Books Guide

'Written to almost make you wish you had been there'

—— The Times

'Terrific, an insightful memoir about family love'

—— Evening Standard

Vividly readable... Leslie Thomas is one of nature's life enchancers

—— Sunday Express

A fine storyteller

—— Sunday Telegraph

Grossman was above all a clear-eyed and generous witness to the human cost of war, civilians and soldiers of both sides, the lost women and broken men; in the very highest order of journalistic achievement, he was as alert to the victims as much as to the heroes his audience was required to read about

—— David Flusfeder , Daily Telegraph

Impeccably edited, the commentary as informative as it is unobtrusive.

—— Robert Chandler , Financial Times

In bringing his notebooks to a wider audience, and in reminding us about this brilliant witness, Beevor and Vinogradova have done their readers - and Grossman's memory - a great service

—— Independent

'Nicholas Stargardt evokes the individual voices of children under Nazi rule. In re-creating their wartime experiences, he has produced a challenging new historical interpretation of the Second World War

—— History Today
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