Memoirs of the Forgotten Man |
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| Author:
| Rossiter, Charles |
| ISBN: | 978-1-320-78766-6 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2015 |
| Publisher: | Blurb
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $21.35 |
Book Description:
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The forgotten man of these memoirs came from people whose stories are rarely written in their own words. Charlie Rossiter was born in the first year of the Great War. He left school at fourteen years to work in the local coal mine with his father Joseph. He tells his own story from his very first memory of a German Zeppelin flying over his village to his experience in Palestine in 1936 and the war years in Egypt and Libya. He survived Tobruk and El Alamein and went on to emigrate to...
More DescriptionThe forgotten man of these memoirs came from people whose stories are rarely written in their own words. Charlie Rossiter was born in the first year of the Great War. He left school at fourteen years to work in the local coal mine with his father Joseph. He tells his own story from his very first memory of a German Zeppelin flying over his village to his experience in Palestine in 1936 and the war years in Egypt and Libya. He survived Tobruk and El Alamein and went on to emigrate to Australia after the war, father a family of four, and work in the mines, the steel industry and as a station hand in the Outback. The way he tells the story is as he would have spoken it to a friend. It has an immediacy that speaks to the truth of a recollection written at the age of eighty eight years.