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Zero to Hero: From a Boys Home to RAF Hero

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Zero to Hero follows the short life of Victor Roe DFM, CGM, a child from an extremely dysfunctional family from poverty stricken beginnings in a Norwich slum. We plot his progress through council care in Norfolk, to a Boys Home in Northamptonshire and a training farm in Kent, through to RAF Pathfinder aircrew. It also sheds a little light on the social divides that split the UK in the early part of the 20th century.

Pages: 176

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Fonthill Media

Release: January 19, 2015

ISBN: 1781553033

ISBN 13: 9781781553039

Zero to Hero: From a Boys Home to RAF Hero

4/5 ( ratings)

Zero to Hero follows the short life of Victor Roe DFM, CGM, a child from an extremely dysfunctional family from poverty stricken beginnings in a Norwich slum. We plot his progress through council care in Norfolk, to a Boys Home in Northamptonshire and a training farm in Kent, through to RAF Pathfinder aircrew. It also sheds a little light on the social divides that split the UK in the early part of the 20th century.

Pages: 176

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Fonthill Media

Release: January 19, 2015

ISBN: 1781553033

ISBN 13: 9781781553039

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