Description
| Product ID: | 9781803994840 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Bad Lads |
| Subtitle: | RAF National Service Remembered |
| Authors: | Author: Alf Townsend |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Memoirs, Military history, Air forces and warfare, Memoirs, Military history, Air forces & warfare, London, Greater London, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A brutally honest yet entertaining account of the trials and tribulations of National Service in the 1950s Between 1945 and 1963 over 2 1⁄2 million 18-year-olds were called up for national service. Alf Townsend was one of them, and here he tells his story – the highs and lows of life as a lowly Aircraftman Second Class in the early 1950s. Before national service intervened Alf was ‘heading down the criminal road at top speed’, having grown up in a North London slum where money was short and local villains were revered. Bad Lads is a warts and all account of Alf Townsend’s time in the RAF, when he was transplanted into a completely new world of misfits and officer types, rogues and entertainers, all amusingly described in the author’s inimitable style. |
| Imprint Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-10-26 |
