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020			_a9781846831416
040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a823.92 WAL
100			_aWalker, Douglas
245			_aAunt Alice's war : _bthe richly humorous tale of how war came to the sleepy lancashire seaside town of st Anne's / _cDouglas Walker.
300			_aiv, 142 pages ; _c21cm.
520			_a"[In] 1940, war came to St. Anne's , a sleepy Lancashire seaside resort and [the author] and his brother spent several glorious childhood summers helping his eccentric maiden aunt fight the war on the home front. He was, he records, "eight going on none ... and Alice was 45 going on 12." When the call comes for the sons and daughters of England to protect their beloved island, public-spirited Alice willingly volunteers to do her bit for the war effort. She is appointed Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Warden for three of the town's genteel streets of Victorian villas and, dressed in a unique uniform of her own design, immediately sets out to organise the disoprganised and prepare the unprepared ... Told with warmth and tenderness, this ... memoir is a glorious tribute to English eccentricity and to the indomitable spirit that characterised Britain's civilian population during the wartime years. ...
650			_aEnglish fiction.
650			_aWar _vFiction.
650			_aBiographical humor _vFiction.
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