On that day i left my boyhood behind norman woodcock woodcock norman burnett susan isbn 9781909121843 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. On that day i left my boyhood behind combines my grandfathers stories of the first world war with an accessible history of the war in the regions covered the book starts in leeds and yorkshire then moves on to army and signals training in biggleswade sailing to egypt and the invasion of gallipoli then to salonika and greece north africa mesopotamia palestine and finally the . My intention is not to produce a comprehensive summary of all international media output on gallipoli even if that were possible within the confines of a journal article language barriers and . When he died aged 90 in 1987 he left three large files of handwritten memoirs which i have compiled into a book called on that day i left my boyhood behind in the book i have interspersed normans memoirs of the first world war with the history of the war in the regions he served his stories are powerful combining horror with humour and social commentary the title comes from his