Growing Up with the Gauleiter : My Childhood Before, During and After the Second World War Paperback
by RICHARD LORD
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This is Richard's story of growing up during and after the Second World War.
Readers will discover what happened to the Lord family between 1939 and 1945, enjoying a narrative that is interspersed with interpretation and discussion about how the war changed things in a much wider way.
Although Richard became a history teacher later on in life, his lifelong passion for retrospection was triggered, long before he could even read, by three things: the pictures in an old schoolbook, wartime news bulletins read by the BBC's Alvar Liddell, and his father's recollections of life in the trenches in 1918.
His father was `The Gauleiter'. He was not a Nazi party boss, but Headmaster of Glossop Grammar School, near Manchester, and his son was one of his pupils.
The kids picked up the word `gauleiter' from Alvar Liddell and it became the Head's nickname.
At school, young Richard was taught a body of old-fashioned knowledge by old-fashioned methods and he recounts this, and the classroom scene, in detail. When he began this book, being then an educational `progressive', he had expected to mock the workings of rote learning in an elitist milieu.
However, in writing he changed his mind and instead covered the eventual post-war dissolution of grammar schools. Although Richard Lord takes his history seriously, his typically irreverent humour is woven throughout the book.
There is also a poignant element in a memoir that sometimes takes a confessional turn.
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:528 pages
- Publisher:Troubador Publishing
- Publication Date:28/02/2017
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- ISBN:9781788036719
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Unavailable
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:528 pages
- Publisher:Troubador Publishing
- Publication Date:28/02/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781788036719