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British Library

T066693

Drop-head title. Docket title dated 1766. Enacted: Private Acts, 6 Geo.III.c.81.

[London, 1766]. 22,[2]p. ; 2°

Ralph James has always regarded himself as a Bu'kin'ton Kid, that is, someone who was brought up in the Warwickshire village of Bulkington in the years of war and its aftermath. His account of the war years, extraordinary for his parents and their generation, but the height of normality for him and his contemporaries is compelling, nostalgic, self-deprecating and humorous.
In later life Ralph James was decorated both by the French government and by Queen Elizabeth - not bad, as a former school helloow said, for somebody from Bulkington.