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This is a book about men and war. Not real conflict but war as it has filtered down to generations of boys and men through toys, comics, games, and movies. Harry Pearson belongs to the great battalion of men who grew up playing with toy soldiers—refighting World War II—and then stopped growing up. Inspired by the photos of the gallant pilot uncles that decorated the wall above his father's model-making table, by toys such as Action Man (according to Pearson—not a doll) and board games such as Escape from Colditz, dressed in Clarks' commando shoes and with the Airfix Army in support, he battled in the fields and on the beaches, in his head and on the living room floor, and across his bedroom ceiling. And 30 years later he still is. This hilariously self-deprecating memoir is a celebration of those glory days, a boy's own story of the urge to play, to conquer, and to adopt very bad German accents, shouting "Donner und Blitzen!" at every opportunity. This is a tale of obsession, glue, and plastic kits. It is the story of one boy's imaginary war and where it led him.
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Harry Pearson is a journalist who contributes regularly to The Guardian and GQ, and the author of Around the World by Mouse, Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows, and A Tall Man in a Low Land.
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'Funny, perceptive ... Pearson has you laughing throughout with guilty recognition. You learn a lot of quirky facts and a fair bit of military history from this endearing memoir―SUNDAY TIMES
His war-obsessed childhood is so warm and funny and true you might be tempted to hug yourself with delight―SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
He has a very good line in comedy―DAILY MAIL
A funny, perceptive book about men and their ineradicable love of war ... Harry Pearson has you laughing throughout with guilty recognition―Christopher Hart, SUNDAY TIMES
His war-obsessed childhood is so warm and funny and true you might be tempted to hug yourself with delight―SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
He has a very good line in comedy―DAILY MAIL
A funny, perceptive book about men and their ineradicable love of war ... Harry Pearson has you laughing throughout with guilty recognition―Christopher Hart, SUNDAY TIMES
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- PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0316861367
- ISBN 13 9780316861366
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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