Bye-Bye Blackbird by Peter Moss

Bye-Bye Blackbird by Peter Moss

Eleven years old when his family joined the Anglo-Indian exodus, on the eve of India's independence, Peter Moss never felt at home in the postwar austerity of his father's land, where he saw how far and how fast Britain was forsaking both her empire and her greatness. When he returned to his childhood haunts, more than thirty years later, he found his Anglo-India had disappeared, submerged beneath the waves of history. Bye-Bye Blackbird is more than a loving portrait of that lost world. It is also a wry but affectionate look at Britain, bracing herself for the implosion that would follow the Big Bang of her imperial expansion, when the fall-out would come hurtling back to the epicentre and change the very nature of what it meant to be British.

His explorations brought him into contact with a vivid spectrum of characters as diverse as a First World War pilot who duelled with the Red Baron's successor above the trenches of the Western Front, a sadistic sergeant who loved to be lampooned in caricature, a redoubtable landlady who wouldn't allow a Kikuyu bishop in her boarding house, Field Marshall Montgomery, Sir Winston Churchill and a mad Irishman who drove him back to India in a battered overland bus.

Peter Moss is Professor in Early Childhood Provision at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Gunilla Dahlberg is Professor at Stockholm Institute of Education. She is the leading exponent of the application of post-structural theory to the field of early childhood.

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ISBN 13	9780595313730
ISBN 10	0595313736
Title	Bye-Bye Blackbird
Author	Peter Moss
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	iUniverse
Year published	2004-03-23
Number of pages	252
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