James Clarke

The Yellow Six (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is this book about?
I am so glad you asked me that.
It is about a band of six Boy Scouts who, during World War 2, collected silver paper from cigarette packets and chocolate wrappers to be recycled into Spitfires and Hurricanes which, smelling faintly of Cadbury's and Virginia leaf, swept the German Luftwaffe from British skies and eventually caused Adolf Hitler to commit suicide.
Read about the hardships the patrol had to endure. How when they went around from house-to-house on "Bob-a-Job Day", villagers would hide or paint white crosses on their doors.
Despite it all the Yellow Six aka the Peewit Patrol of the First Streetly Boy Scouts adhered heroically to the Boy Scout's code of conduct which entailed smiling and whistling "under all difficulties" they smiled and whistled even when trying to help a man who was buried under some collapsed scaffolding and who was doing his best to shut them up and drive them off.
Read how they helped old ladies across roads even though some struggled violently, and on to buses going the wrong way; how they helped drag furniture from a house they thought was on fire...
And, if the reader can stomach it, read how they gained their proficiency badges for cooking and how long some of them managed to hold down their self-cooked meals.
It is a stirring yarn hitherto untold and largely autobiographical.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: James Clarke
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301605071
• Artikelnr.: 46937210

Autorenporträt

The author, James Clarke, works from Johannesburg and has published more than 30 books in the United States, the United Kingdom and South Africa. For most of his career he was a science writer specialising in environmental issues mainly in Africa.
He wrote the keynote book for the World Summit in 2002 - "Coming Back to Earth".
His books have been about natural history, environment and cultural history but over the last few years he has made a name as a writer of humorous books - mostly autobiographical.

He lives in Johannesburg from where he writes a thrice weekly humour column in The Star which is syndicated by Independent Newspapers.

He has been described as "South Africa's Best Humour Columnist" (SA's Comedy
Awards) and "South Africa's funniest columnist" (Financial Mail).