White City by Donald James Wheal
On the morning of 24th February 1944 following a devastating Luftwaffe raid, Donald Wheal and his family were homeless refugees with bulging suitcases and faces blackened by soot blast. In "World's End", the first part of his bestselling childhood autobiography, he told of his upbringing during the Blitz in the rough working class community which was Chelsea's "World's End". The morning after the World's End bombing he realized that the ties that had bound him to the past were now broken - a new world and a new fate awaited him. In "White City", he tells the story of how his family, now menaced by the V-bombs and rockets that were the last stage of London's war, were re-settled in an anonymous London suburb where later his adolescence was to began amidst post war privation, sexual yearning and first love. In these dark years, the quest for new experiences took him all around Britain and finally to war-ravaged France. A testing period of National Service in Germany and Italy completed his journey to adulthood. "White City" is as funny, heartbreaking and engaging as "World's End".
Donald James Wheal is the real name of Donald James, the critically acclaimed thriller writer of Monstrum, The Fortune Teller and Vadim. As Donald Wheal he has also written The Fall of the Russian Empire and the The Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich. Donald James Wheal is the author of World's End.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846050855 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846050855 |
| Title | White City |
| Author | Donald James Wheal |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2007-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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