The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship by Michael Frederick Green

Before he had to fire in anger, the war ended. Joining a tank regiment, Green was trained at home then sent to Italy which had surrendered but was in mayhem. Bad news kept arriving and school comrades kept being posted missing, POW or dead. The old hands remaining told incessant stories about the Great War, just like Green had heard all his life.

Most of the men here were young, filling in until joining the army as the call-ups had already started and the experienced men had gone. The newsroom hadn't changed since the Boer War and one editor's typewriter had separate keys for lower case and upper case letters. At sixteen, out of school and desperate to get a job rather than have an unpopular job forced upon him, Green managed to get accepted as a junior reporter in a local paper. The book takes us through school, country and town life, rugby, friendships which were later shattered by war service. I've read in the memoir of the Pullein-Thompson sisters that they had to import hay from Canada as there just were not enough men to do all the farm work at this time. Growing up in Leicester between the wars, Green was well used to seeing maimed returned soldiers his father was one of them. OL10506471W Page_number_confidence 94.52 Pages 254 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.16 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211104021443 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 309 Scandate 20211030143813 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780553176070 Tts_version 4.I love all Michael Green's books, which discuss rugby, acting or sailing, for example. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:06:51 Boxid IA40278020 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship by Michael Frederick Green