My Life As A Spy (Ulverscroft Large Print Series) - Hardcover
An only child, living above a shop in post-war Halifax, Woodhead grew up with austerity and secrets. But nothing prepared him for the comically bleak RAF National Service training camps he now found himself in, nor the isolated Joint Services School for Linguistics on the East coast of Scotland. Here he was taught Russian, before being posted to an ex-Luftwaffe base in a war-scarred Berlin. In the ruins of a city gripped by espionage and paranoia, he discovers adulthood and his vocation as an observer and documenter of people.
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In 1956, like two million other men of his generation, the eighteen-year old Leslie Woodhead received a summons to serve Her Majesty. An only child, living above a shop in repressed, post-war Halifax, he had grown up with austerity and secrets. But nothing prepared him for comically bleak RAF training camps, or the grim isolation of the joint Services School for Linguistics on the east coast of Scotland. Posted to an ex-Luftwaffe base in war ravaged Berlin, a city gripped by espionage and paranoia, Woodhead was a bemused participant in a little known chapter of Cold War history which was to define his future as an observer and documenter of people. Retracing his teenage steps fifty years later, Leslie has written a highly atmospheric memoir of coming of age during the peculiar circumstances of the early Cold War, and a poignant reflection on how our lives can be formed by events and experiences we don’t comprehend at the time.
Born in Glasgow in 1937, Leslie Woodhead is one of Britain's most distinguished documentary film-makers. His pionnering films, often on major Eastern European themes, have won many awards, including a BAFTA and the Royal Television Society award. He has been awarded an OBE for 'services to television'. He lives in Cheshire.
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- PublisherIsis Large Print
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0753193663
- ISBN 13 9780753193662
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages264
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