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The Empress of Australia - A Post-War Memoir (Paperback)
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The Empress of Australia - A Post-War Memoir (Paperback)
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Loot Price R410
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In the winter of 1948, a post-war darkness felled Britain and
happiness, like sweets, was tightly rationed. So begins Harry
Leslie Smith's bitter-sweet memoir: The Empress of Australia which
depicts life in post-war Yorkshire. Recently demobbed from the RAF,
Smith and his German war bride must try to adjust to a civilian
society that is scarred from not only the war but the harsh reality
of living in peacetime Britain. At first, Harry Leslie Smith finds
himself ill equipped for this brave new world where Britain has
lost its empire and is bankrupt. Yet, like so many other returning
veterans from the Second World War, Smith stumbled onwards through
the era known as the "Age of Austerity" to confront the horrors of
his childhood and the innate injustice of a society divided by
class. Harry Leslie Smith sketches a real, sometimes amusing and
sometimes melancholic portrait of Britain in the late 1940s. In his
book, Smith speaks for all generations who have faced untold
hardships in their quest for dignity and purpose during times of
financial, political and familial upheaval. The Empress of
Australia is a personal history of one man's journey towards self
discovery and freedom from row house Britain. Sometimes, after the
war, peace is the hardest battle to survive.
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