Days from a Different World: A Memoir of Childhood
- ISBN-10
- 0330435620
- ISBN-13
- 9780330435628
- Category
- Foreign correspondents
- Pages
- 401
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Author
- John Simpson
Description
In this new volume of memoirs, John Simpson turns his sights on his own childhood in Britain during the 1940s and 1950s and tell the somewhat strange and moving story of his family and his early years in a south London suburb. Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2005.
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