Evocative, detailed and unsentimental - gets us wonderfully close-up to the London of the 1930s viewed through the unblinking eyes of a working-class boy relishing every new experience * David Kynaston, author of Austerity Britain *
An urchin's story that does for London what The Road to Nab End did for Lancashire ... a vivid recreation of a street life of poverty and insecurity richly infused with great warmth, mischief and humour * Juliet Gardiner, author of The Thirties: An Intimate History *
Vic's honesty and warmth shine through this engaging story * Choice Magazine *
Intensely moving **** * Juliet Gardner, Mail on Sunday *
A gripping life-story: an incident-packed account of heartache, violence and cunning by a man whose will to survive and unbreakable optimism are a true inspiration * Independent on Rifleman *
Completely fascinating ... It has an immediate power throughout that makes war fiction a pale shadow of the real thing * Conn Iggulden *
Second World War memoirs are commonplace, but very few soldiers had Victor Gregg's breadth and depth of experience ... Rifleman is an outstanding book that deserves to become a classic * Lloyd Clark, author of Arnhem *
As action-packed as any fiction, and yet this is no novel ... His is truly an astonishing story * James Holland, author of The Battle of Britain and Fortress Malta *
Quite simply, it is one of the best first-hand accounts by a combat infantryman that I have read ... This gripping book immediately joins a select band of the best soldiers' stories told from the sharp end. It is a classic ***** * Gary Sheffield, Mail on Sunday *
His coldly factual account of the torments of its burned-to-death victims exceeds in power even Kurt Vonnegut's famous fictional account, Slaughterhouse Five ... Warrior Gregg has seen and experienced the stuff of nightmares, but remains a chirpy optimist in his 90s * Daily Mirror *
