Specs' War

by Sara Fraser

"We don't make Zepellins any more, because Johnny Merry says they're too old fashioned. So we make Spitfires and Hurricaines, and Mershersmits and Focker Wolves" This is the story of "Specs", a scruffy, bespectacled ten-year-old boy experiencing the turmoil of the Second World War in a Midlands town. It is a story of a world that has now disappeared, a world in which children were both actors and spectators in the life that pulsated around them. It was a rough, hard and impoverished life, but it was a life that bequeathed to its protagonists a brimming treasure chest of priceless memories...

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Sara Fraser is a pseudonym for Roy Clews, a one-time Marine Commando and Foreign Legionnaire who has traveled and worked all over the world.