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The second volume of Woodruff's memoirs begins with him arriving in Poplar in the early 1930s. Luckily he gets a job at a steel foundry, and lives with an old couple in Bow. It also covers his winning of a place at Oxford and his part in the war effort.
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"It is 1933 and William Woodruff, sixteen and passionately idealistic, is leaving the Lancashire of his childhood so vividly portrayed in The Road to Nab End. He is going to London, determined to make his way in the world. Set down in the East End, William discovers no streets paved with gold, but filthy tenements and squalor. His beer-swilling landlady has a predatory daughter and a tattooed son with whom he has to share his bed, sleeping head to toe. At night school, William discovers his love of learning. And as Mosley's blackshirts provoke street fighting, he witnesses the stoicism and courage of ordinary people in the face of impending war..."
"His writing gleams with life, reanimating characters, times, and places that seduce the listener. In this he's ably assisted by reader Sam Kelly, whose voice, brisk pace, and regional accent exude warmth, humor, and goodwill."
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"His writing gleams with life, reanimating characters, times, and places that seduce the listener. In this he's ably assisted by reader Sam Kelly, whose voice, brisk pace, and regional accent exude warmth, humor, and goodwill."
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William Woodruff served with the First British Infantry Division during World War II and landed with his unit in the initial wave of the Anzio invasion. After the war he returned to Oxford University and, later, earned his doctorate of philosophy at Nottingham. He is now Graduate Research Professor in Economic History at the University of Florida.
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- PublisherParagon
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0754093549
- ISBN 13 9780754093541
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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