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1923 - A Memoir: Lies and Testaments (Paperback)
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1923 - A Memoir: Lies and Testaments (Paperback)
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Loot Price R396
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To say that Harry Smith was born under an unlucky star would be an
understatement. Born in England in 1923, Smith chronicles the
tragic story of his early life in this first volume of his memoirs.
He presents his family's early history-their misfortunes and their
experiences of enduring betrayal, inhumane poverty, infidelity, and
abandonment. 1923: A Memoir presents the story of a life lyrically
described, capturing a time both before and during World War II
when personal survival was dependent upon luck and guile. During
this time, failure insured either a trip to the workhouse or burial
in a common grave. Brutally honest, Smith's story plummets to the
depths of tragedy and flies up to the summit of mirth and wonder,
portraying real people in an uncompromising, unflinching voice.
1923: A Memoir tells of a time and place when life, full of raw
emotion, was never so real. The sky is clear. I am in the back of a
truck, in a long convoy of vehicles. We are moving like an enormous
centipede up a two lane road. There are 15 men in each lorry.
Woodbine cigarettes and Capstans dangle from our mouths. The straps
to our tin helmets hang loosely around our chins. We are cocksure
and unafraid. We are survivors and conquerors pushing our way
through northern Germany. Opposite our convoy, there is an endless
procession of refugees. They are pushing their scant possessions in
hand carts or dragging along worn luggage with ropes wrapped around
them. The procession contained men and women, the young and the
old. Thin, cadaverous horses followed the throng dragging their
hoofs in the thin soil beside the road. The jetsam was a mixture of
forced labourers, ex prisoners, ex concentration camp inmates and
the Diaspora from Germany's eastern provinces. They were all moving
southward, as if believing that their homes still existed or that
they still had relatives alive to give them shelter. If the
Netherlands and Belgium were any example to me, there was little
left of Europe. What had not been bombed had been looted and what
had not been looted had been burned to the ground.
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