Add to ORKGOutlines father's working career, affiliation to Heineman's Socialist Democratic Federation, Women's Suffragette Movement. Explains influence of 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland on himself, speakers at Hyde Park [London], Bomb Shop in Charing Cross Road. Details his political life mentioning Socialist Propaganda League, 1936 Spanish Civil War, interest in Trotskyism, CLR James. Talks of activities in disputed European territories with International Tramping Tours, leafletting at Oswald Mosely march, joining trade union, moving to Leicester. Describes Labour Party in Leicester, varying attitudes to World War II - initially perceived as 'Imperialist'. Details life in army, class differences, logistics of anti-aircraft division in Malta, censorsh...