Bad Lads: Raf National Service Remembered by Townsend, Alf

Low stock: 7 left

247mm x 171mm x 8mm

Pages: 144

Between 1945 and 1963, over two and a half million eighteen-year-olds were called up for National Service. Alf Townsend was one of them, and here he tells his story - the highs and lows of life as a lowly Aircraftman Second Class in the early 50s. Before national service intervened, Alf was heading down the criminal road at top speed, having grown up in a north London slum, where money was short and local villains were revered. This book is a warts-and-all account of Alfs time in the Raf, when he was transplanted into a completely new world of misfits and officer types, rogues and entertainers, all amusingly described in his own inimitable style.