Dave's Tales

In this frank and funny memoir, businessman and journalist David Franklin entertains us with tales from his extraordinary life. Fleeing Nazi Germany with his Jewish family in 1937, he spent his teenage years in Southwest London where he received a crash course in English at the local grammar school. With the outbreak of war and the fear that arose from the fall of France, he came under suspicion as an 'enemy alien' - even his clapped-out bicycle was deemed a possible threat to national security. Barred from joining the Armed Forces, he found himself instead drawn into the London demi-monde - a whirlpool of swing, drink and sexual experimentation - and there rubbed shoulders, and sometimes more, with a cast of characters that ranged from film stars and musicians to 'working girls' and sex-starved sailors.

Meanwhile, he was also making the first tentative steps of his career, working as a salesman for his parents' clothing company in Soho's Wardour Street. A post-war sales trip to the United States, however, allowed him not only to see more of the world but to realise that it was high time that he branched out on his own.
Brimming with ribald humour and an unquenchable joie de vivre, Dave's Tales takes the lid off the prim-and-proper image we often have of the 1940s and 50s. By turns emotional and heart-felt, witty and unabashedly vulgar, these are memoirs that bear witness to a life lived to the absolute full.

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Author	Dave Franklin
ISBN	9781846241932
Cover Type	Hardback
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Publication Date	1/2/2008
Price:	£14.99

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