A Staffordshire Man : AuthorHouse UK : 9781504995788 : 1504995783 : 12 Dec 2015 : Set in an industrial, relatively poor district of North Staffordshire, "A Staffordshire Lad' is a sensitive, innocent and frank portrayal of an ordinary boy growing up during the Second World War in an ordinary family amongst ordinary people. There are no heroes. It is a story that was common to tens of thousands of children born at this time and it is this very ordinariness that gives it its power. The story provides an insight into the author's grandparents, struggling to make ends meet, the risks of childbirth and the dangers to coalminers. It paints graphic descriptions of those times; experiences that were still prevalent during and after the author's birth. It provides a journey of a child born in the austere times of the mid-thirties, already under the shadow of war, through the conflict, family life, education, playing and development through to