Keeping Mum: A Wartime ChildhoodWhat's it like to be the man of the house when you're still only a boy? In 'Keeping Mum', Brian Thompson describes such a story. Whilst other children were evacuated out of the big cities, Brian found himself travelling into London, and spent much of the war with an eccentric crowd of ribald relations. |
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