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across North Africa, was a driver for the Long Range Desert Group and fought at the Battle of Alamein. Taken into captivity at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944, he was sentenced to death for sabotaging a Dresden factory; he escaped only when the Allies’ infamous air raid blew apart his prison and soon encountered the advancing Red Army. Gregg’s fascinating tale does not end with the war - he also recounts his later adventures behind the Iron Curtain, offering behind-the-scenes glimpses into the shadowy world of Cold War espionage.
Rifleman
is the extraordinary story of an independent-minded and quick-witted survivor.
    â€˜Completely fascinating … It has an immediate power throughout that makes war fiction a pale shadow of the real thing’
Conn Iggulden, author of the bestselling
Conqueror
series
    â€˜A gripping life-story: an incident-packed account of heartache, violence and cunning by a man whose will to survive and unbreakable optimism are a true inspiration’
Independent
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King’s Cross Kid
    A London Childhood between the Wars

    Ninety-three-year-old Victor Gregg has had a rich and fascinating life.
King’s Cross Kid
follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the scallywag years of late childhood began. Then, after the years of street gangs and run-ins with the law, Vic leaves school at fourteen and his real adventures start, and with them a working-class apprenticeship in survival.
    Ending with his enlistment in the army on the day of his eighteenth birthday, this prequel to the bestselling
Rifleman
will appeal to the many readers who were charmed by Victor Gregg’s engaging, honest and warm voice.
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