Roger Atkinson - Blackout, Austerity and Pride
Blackout, Austerity and Pride – Life in the 1940s is a book written primarily from actual experience. It tells how an alert and intelligent boy, effectively orphaned at the age of 13, sets out to gain a foothold in life. Aided by some resourceful women, he unites a thirst for knowledge with a growing passion for places and buses and a strong sense of duty. http://www.memoir1940s.org.uk/
Blackout, Austerity and Pride – Life in the 1940s is a book written primarily from actual experience. It tells how an alert and intelligent boy, effectively orphaned at the age of 13, sets out to gain a foothold in life. Aided by some resourceful women, he unites a thirst for knowledge with a growing passion for places and buses and a strong sense of duty.
http://www.memoir1940s.org.uk/
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Contents<br />
Introduction 13<br />
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />
United Kingdom currency (£sd) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22<br />
1 – Keep calm <strong>and</strong> carry on 25<br />
A black sheep in green uniform . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />
Reconstructing the story now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
Learning <strong>and</strong> discovering in 1944/5 . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />
University or Army? – 1945/6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43<br />
2 – In the army – 1946 49<br />
The national scene in 1946 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
The General Service Corps – March <strong>and</strong> April 1946 . . 52<br />
Infantry training – summer 1946 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59<br />
British Restaurants – <strong>and</strong> other lunches out . . . . . . . 62<br />
Intelligence Corps training – July–November 1946 . . . 64<br />
London in autumn 1946 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
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