Robert Collins (1) (1924–)
Autor von The Age of Innocence: 1870/1880
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Robert Collins grew up in rural Saskatchewan during the Depression in conditions described in his bestseller Butter Down the Well. After serving in Europe with the RCAF during the war, he returned to Canada to attend university. Later, as a writer for Maclean's, the Star Weekly, and Toronto Life, mehr anzeigen he chronicled the post-war boom of the 1950s and the upheaval of the turbulent 1960s, and has more recently travelled the country writing major articles for Reader's Digest weniger anzeigen
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- 1924
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- Canada
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- Shamrock, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Never really in any danger except from when Germany sent over V-1's and V-2's when he was in London, he enjoyed life off the base when on leave. He learned to overcome his shyness around women, learned to dance and to drink moderately. His descriptions of young men on leave in wartime England are priceless.
In late 1945 he was posted to Occupied Germany in the British sector. The city near the base was Hamburg the amount of destruction shocked him. But while he would feel pity for the German civilians, he would remind himself of what Germany had done to other countries and their people. Still he and his colleagues eventually took part in the black market and fraternized with young German women.
In England he fell in love a couple of times but in one case she dropped him for an American. In the other he realized when he got home, it wasn't a relationship he wanted to continue at the time.
A wonderful description of men who served an important role but were never really in danger.… (mehr)