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Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack - A Boyhood Year During World War II (Hardcover, New)
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Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack - A Boyhood Year During World War II (Hardcover, New)
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The year is 1942, and while America is reeling from the first blows
of WWII, Osgood is just a nine-year-old boy living in Baltimore. As
the war rages somewhere far beyond the boundaries of his hometown,
he spends his days delivering newspapers, riding the trolley to the
local amusement park, going to Orioles' baseball games, and goofing
around with his younger sister. With a sharp eye for details,
Osgood captures the texture of life in a very different era, a time
before the polio vaccine and the atomic bomb. In his neighborhood
of Liberty Heights, gaslights still glowed on every corner, milkmen
delivered bottles of milk, and a loaf of bread cost nine cents.
Osgood reminisces about his first fistfight with a kid from the
neighborhood, his childhood crush on a girl named Sue, and his
relationship with his father, a traveling salesman. He also talks
about his early love for radio and how he used to huddle under the
covers after his parents had turned off the lights, listening to
"Superman, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, and, of course, to baseball
games. "Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack is a gloriously
funny and nostalgic slice of American life and a moving look at
World War II from the perspective of a child far away from the
fighting, but very conscious of the reverberations.
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