Life story of a Hungarian Jew born before WWI, who's life gets destroyed by the Holocaust. The rebuilt family business gets destroyed by the Communists in 1948, causing him to restart life the second time. Life then gets disrupted by the Hungarian uprising, causing a move to Israel to start over again for the third time, establishing a modest life, disrupted by the early death of his beloved wife. He lived to age 96 with all his faculties intact and a memory as brilliant as ever. A REVIEW: - Wonderfully written, unique and lucid style, with an enthusiastic, child-like personality. - It's an old-fashioned love story. - His first employment sounds amusingly Dickensian. - A picture of life in those dramatic periods, from an everyman's point of view. - An added perspective as to why European Jews fell victim to the Holocaust. - It shows what one needs to survive and flourish in such trying times: intelligence, resourcefulness, a supportive family, a lot of luck, and a passion for life.

Rainbows Among the Ruins

Baron, Alexander

Biographies & Memoirs

lulu.com

This Second World War novel, set in France i n 1944, tells the story of the Fifth Battalion of the Wessex Regiment. '

From the City, from the Plough

Robert Hale, Ltd.

The lowlife

I. Henry

This is a rediscovered classic novel of World War II. It's 1943. The allied invasion of Sicily. In a lull in the fighting, an exhausted British battalion marches into the searing summer heat of Catania, to be greeted by the women, children and old men emerging from the bomb shelters. Yearning for some semblance of domestic life, the men begin to fill the roles left by absent husbands and fathers. Unlikely relationships form, tender, exploitative even cruel, but all shaped by the exigencies of war. Centred around a love story, between Graziela, a young mother, and Sergeant Craddock, whose rough attempts at seduction are vindicated by his sympathy and the care he shows for her malnourished child, "There's No Home" offers an unerringly humane and authentic portrayal of the emotional impact of war.

There's No Home

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

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From the City, From the Plough

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Genre Fiction

Hassell Street Press

'We have waited a long time for this war's All Quiet on the Western Front,' wrote the critic V.S. Pritchett. 'Here It is.' He was reviewing the 1948 novel From the City From the Plough by Alexander Baron (1917-1999). With its success, Baron became a full-time writer. His best-known later novels include The Human Kind (1953), The Lowlife (1963), and King Dido (1969). Between the 1950s and 1980s he also wrote many film and television scripts. Here Baron recounts the experiences of his childhood and youth that shaped him as a writer and provided subject matter for his novels. He evokes the sights, sounds, and aromas surrounding him growing up in a Jewish family in Hackney, East London, in the 1920s. Later, aware of the rising fascist threat, Baron was drawn to left-wing politics, becoming a leader of Labour's youth organisation. Although not formally a member, he also worked secretly for the Communist Party as an organiser and propagandist. With World War Two his life changed again. A keen solider, he fought with the Pioneer Corps in Sicily, Italy, and northern France. After a hard transition to post-war life, he worked at Unity Theatre in London while writing his breakthrough novel.

Chapters of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir

Arts & Literature

Vallentine, Mitchell

Welch, Robin

Soundings Ltd

Harryboy is lowlife scum. But if he leaves the track after the thirteenth race quids in, everyone'll say, there goes Harryboy Boas, King of the Track. Trouble starts for Harryboy when the Deaners move into his Hackney boarding house. Quicker than he can place a bet on a dog, Harryboy finds himself the admired hero and evil genius of the family, particularly for the child Gregory. But Harryboy is also the victim of a secret guilt of his own, something unknown even to his doting sister, Debbie, ensconced in her nouveau riche Finchley mansion. As the debts from his addictions grow, Harryboy sinks deeper into a criminal underworld where violence and revenge are the inevitable comeback to those who can't pay up.

Lowlife (The London Fiction Series)

Literary

Vintage Books

Battle has its own strange chemistry. The courage and endurance of a group of men is greater than the sum total of the courage and endurance of the individuals in the group; for, when most of the group have reached the limits of human endeavour, there is always one among them who can surpass those limits, who will hold the others together and drive them on. It is not the romantic picture of war; but it is the truth of war. In January 1944, on the south coast of England, the Fifth Battalion, Wessex Regiment, wait patiently and nervously for the order to embark. There is boredom and fear, comedy and pathos as the men--all drawn from different walks of life--await the order to move. With an economy of language that belies its emotional impact, From the City, From the Plough is a vivid, unflinching account of the fate of these men as they embark for Normandy and advance into France, where the battalion suffers devastating casualties.

From the City, from the Plough (IWM Wartime Classics)

Imperial War Museums

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Rainbows Among the Ruins

From the City, from the Plough

The lowlife

There's No Home

From the City, From the Plough

From the City, From the Plough

Chapters of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir

From the City, from the Plough

Lowlife (The London Fiction Series)

From the City, from the Plough (IWM Wartime Classics)