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"We don't make Zepellins any more, because Johnny Merry says they're too old fashioned. So we make Spitfires and Hurricaines, and Mershersmits and Focker Wolves" This is the story of "Specs", a scruffy, bespectacled ten-year-old boy experiencing the turmoil of the Second World War in a Midlands town. It is a story of a world that has now disappeared, a world in which children were both actors and spectators in the life that pulsated around them. It was a rough, hard and impoverished life, but it was a life that bequeathed to its protagonists a brimming treasure chest of priceless memories...