27 Raglan Street: A Childhood in WW2 Glasgow

By Robert Chessar

Dec 1942. Robert is eleven months old. His father, killed in the war in Africa, leaves him with wee Jeanie and three siblings; John, five; Jean, eight; and Hetty, thirteen. They live in two dingy ground-floor rooms behind a working men's pub in Glasgow. This is the story of the youngster's fight for survival and dignity; recounting joys and tribulations among his peers, street gangs, bullies, drunks, paedophiles and a dead old woman in a back close. His training in a military boarding school in Perthshire augurs freedom from the degradation of the slums of his birth. But has he changed?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786234890
• ISBN13: 9781786234896
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing Limited
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"