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Boy in the Blitz
Colin Perry

Boy in the Blitz

the 1940 diary of Colin Perry

Sutton (Sep 07, 2000)
9780750926041
224 pages | 127 x 200 mm
$ 1.99 | Value: $ 1.78
Dewey 940.54/211092
LC Classification D811.5 .P458 2004

Subject

  • Boys
  • London (England)
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945/ Personal Narratives, British
  • Youth

Plot

The diary of Colin Albert Perry, born in Camberwell in 1922. When war broke out on September 3rd, 1939 he was a junior clerk with the California Standard Oil Company in the Royal Bank of Canada in the heart of London. His diary ended in November 1940 when he joined the Merchant Navy as a ship's writer.