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ADVANCE INFORMATION
From Country
Lanes to
Motorway
A Journey Remembered
Tony Doherty
KEY SELLING POINTS
A memoir of the ups and downs of family life during and just after the Second World War.
Gives detail and colour to a period of recent history through the personal experiences and memories of the
author.
Shows just how very different things were at that time in comparison to the modern world.
Both informative and amusing in equal measure.
A true story of life as a child during the Second World War and through adolescence and teenage years in the
1950s and early 1960s. A time of worry and fear for parents, but of excitement and adventure for children. The
freedom to roam and fanaticise without supervision and learning from real life experiences. Near misses which
today would be considered unbelievably neglectful and dangerous. Working on the farm at fourteen. Joining
the army cadets at thirteen to learn to be a soldier and going to summer camp to fire blank bullets from a .303
rifle at your mates was all good fun.
On the downside, it was a time when waiting for your call-up papers at eighteen was routine. Then having to
drop whatever you were doing to spend two years in the army, training as a real soldier in West Germany, or
some other far away commonwealth outpost, and finally, to be demobbed as a disciplined but totally different
person. All indications that at the time, you did what was required of you without fear or favour.
Tony Doherty is 83 years old and recently celebrated 6o years of marriage. He served an apprenticeship as a
welder, later qualified as a welding engineer, and when he retired in 1996 was Quality Assurance Manager and
engineer responsible for special projects for the Transco Division of British Gas. His family includes two
children, three grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.
Publication Date: 28th July 2024 £13.99 ISBN: 9781805144632
Thema subject category: DNC – Memoirs
paperback 216 x 138 mm 400 pp Portrait Author location: Leicester
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