Bad Lads: RAF National Service Remembered

by Alf Townsend

Overview

Between 1945 and 1963, more than 2.5 million 18-year-olds were called up for National Service. Alf Townsend was one of them, and here he tells his story - the highs and lows of life as a lowly Aircraftman Second Class in the early 1950s.

Before national service intervened, Alf was 'heading down the criminal road at top speed', having grown up in a north London slum, where money was short and local villains were revered. Bad Lads is a warts-and-all account of Alf's time in the RAF, when he was transplanted into a completely new world of misfits and officer types, rogues and entertainers, all amusingly described in his own inimitable style.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803994840
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	01/26/2024
Edition description:	New edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Alf Townsend is a long-serving London cabbie, a trade journalist and a published author. He has always had a passion for taxis and charabancs. He became a chara driver in the late fifties. Alf's previous books include The Black Cab Story and The London Cabbie. Alf lives in London.