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Black Jacks, Fruit Salads

Do you remember sucking aniseed balls until your tongue was red? Pretending to be Hitler with a tin hat on your head? Going to Saturday morning pictures with cap guns, lead soldiers and The Beano in your pocket? Playing cricket with stumps chalked onto a wall? Trying your first cigarette on the walk home from school? Brian Watson recalls these and many other magical moments from his 1950s London childhood and brings the era vividly back to life with his funny, evocative verse and stunning photographic recreations of the time. Deeply aware that his childhood exploits were only possible because of the sacrifices made during the Second World War, Brian Watson includes a moving tribute to the Battle of Britain pilots – the few to whom subsequent generations owe so much.