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This wry and poignant literary memoir follows the adventures of a young lad from Halifax as he is put through grim RAF National Service training camps and Russian language schools before being despatched to an inhospitable, cold-war Berlin on a pointless tour of duty. A hugely evocative tale of coming of age in post-war Britain, and a wry take on one young man's reluctant and eventually absurd role spying for her Majesty.
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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.
Leslie Woodhead is one of Britain’s most distinguished documentary makers. From the mid-60s he worked as a Producer and Director on Granada TV’s “World in Action”, later becoming Series Editor. His pioneering films, often on major Eastern European themes, have won many awards, including a BAFTA and Royal Television Society Award. In 1994, he gained an OBE for Services to Television. In addition to many articles for the national press, he has previously written an account of film-making with a remote African tribe, A Box Full Of Spirits (Heinemann, 1987).
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- PublisherMacmillan UK
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1405040866
- ISBN 13 9781405040860
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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