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Memoir of a Fascist Childhood: A Boy in Mosley's Britain - Trevor Grundy


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Memoir of a Fascist Childhood: A Boy in Mosley's Britain - Trevor Grundy

 
Description: ISBN 0434004677 / Genre: History / Author: Trevor Grundy / Hardcover / 203 Pages / Book is published 1998-01-20 by William Heinemann Ltd

Newest Review: ... all mad a long, long time ago. 'Eleven years earlier,' writes Grundy. 'Mosley's death in Paris had intruded abruptly on my ... more

 ... life in Zimbabwe. Sir Oswald Mosely was eighty-four when he died in his home outside Paris, in a house called Temple de la Gloire, which had been built in 1800 for General Moreau, who was one of Napoleon's marshals.' The contrast between his father's life and death in a council flat and Mosley's rather grander existence in France is stark indeed. The book then takes us back to 1948. Grundy is eight and lives with his working class parents and sister in London. They are, especially his mother, fanatical supporters ...more

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Crowned Review Memoir of a Fascist Childhood: A Boy in Mosley's Britain - Trevor Grundy: Dazed and Confused (1469 words)
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'Brought up by parents who were fanatical supporters of Oswald Mosley, Trevor Grundy became the youngest public speaker for the Union Movement, giving a speech in Trafalgar Square at the age of seventeen. Soon after, Trevor began to question his family and their beliefs. He discovered a new moral framework - and the shocking secret that his mother, an anti-Semitic Fascist, was Jewish.' Memoir Of A Fascist Childhood was first published in 1998 and written by journalist Trevor Grundy. My paperback copy is just over two hundred pages long and the book is very readable and accessible with much humour despite the sometimes disturbing themes. The heart of the book ...  Read the complete review

 

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