{"product_id":"2940152588880","title":"Only Yesterday: Times of my Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Ah yes, I remember it well.’\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book of adventures written by an eighty-five-year-old and dedicated to his two-year old grandson, containing drama, tragedy, comedy, not to mention history in its most exciting yet moving form. How can one not be enthralled by the extraordinary real life events related here?\u003cbr\u003eFrom frightening days at boarding school to a somewhat unusual introduction to the RAF;\u003cbr\u003eFrom the London blitz to a touching incident in an Algiers brothel;\u003cbr\u003eFrom having one’s bathroom decorated by a great train robber to recording Richard Briers, Freddie Trueman, James Mason, Harold Wilson and the Princess Royal;\u003cbr\u003eFrom running the London marathon to dining with Bette Davis;\u003cbr\u003eFrom being rescued by helicopter on the North Devon coast to hilarious stories of life in the theatre, TV and record industry, to spending the night in a cancer ward in Hammersmith Hospital;\u003cbr\u003eFrom farewells to George VIth and the Queen Mother to knowing and working with John Mills;\u003cbr\u003eFrom a brief encounter with Winston Churchill to frightening days when Russians invaded Czechoslovakia.\u003cbr\u003eThese are but a few of the reminiscences included in these pages. Simply told and because they are not presented in chronological order, the reader is constantly taken by surprise and will surely identify with much that is written in Only Yesterday.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amolibros","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074345877744,"sku":"2940152588880","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152588880_p0.jpg?v=1764023683","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152588880","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}