Something Wholesale
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Eric Newby. Something Wholesale
ERIC NEWBY. Something Wholesale. My Life and Times in the Rag Trade
Dedication
Contents
Preface
CHAPTER ONE A Short History of the Second World War
CHAPTER TWO An Afternoon at Throttle and Fumble
CHAPTER THREE Life with Father and Mother
CHAPTER FOUR Old Mr Newby
CHAPTER FIVE Back to Normal
CHAPTER SIX In the Mantles
CHAPTER SEVEN All Bruised
CHAPTER EIGHT Sir No More
CHAPTER NINE George’s Boy
CHAPTER TEN A Day in the Showroom
CHAPTER ELEVEN Export or Die
CHAPTER TWELVE Something Wholesale
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Hi! Taxi!
CHAPTER FOURTEEN A Nice Bit of Crêpe
CHAPTER FIFTEEN North with Mr Wilkins
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Caledonia Stern and Wild
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN On the Beach
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN A Night at Queen Charlotte’s
CHAPTER NINETEEN A Man Called Christian
CHAPTER TWENTY Birth of an Explorer
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Lunch with Mr Eyre
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The End of Lane and Newby
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Model Buyer
EpilogueThe Last Time I Saw Paris
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Praise
Also by the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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To My Father
Splendid in Defeat
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‘Before you chaps move on from here,’ he said with a bonhomie which we found extremely distasteful, ‘there is just one thing I would like to say to you.
‘We realise here that things have been pretty rough for you on the other side. The Hun’s finished, now it’s our turn. I expect you saw some pretty rotten things – atrocities. I happen to be the Commandant of a P.O.W. Camp at—(he named a place somewhere remote in East Anglia). I’m also,’ he added, surprisingly, ‘a Member of Parliament. If you’ve witnessed any kind of atrocity in the last few years I would like you to report it to me, now. I promise you that whatever you tell me here will be brought home to the men in my camp. They’ll sweat it out.’
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