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Banjoman

by Allan Francis Scott

381 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-2188; ISBN 1-4120-4380-8; US$29.50, C$33.75, EUR24.00, £17.00

Happiness in 1946 was playing my guitar and banjo on the streets of Nürnberg, my beautiful German girlfriend at my side. The past I had no knowledge of, the present was wonderful, but, the future was so unexpected.

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About the Book

This is a story that links many people from different backgrounds and different interests. It makes us realise that circumstances, rather than planning; control our day-by-day existence.

Greta, from a small town near ill-fated Dresden and Squadron Leader Jonathan Waddinton-Flax, an injured Lancaster pilot, become linked by circumstances beyond their control. They start a new life in 1945 on the streets of a heavily bombed Nurnberg, make new friends and again circumstances push them in an unexpected direction.

The Dixie band in London and the hilarious happenings that I narrate are intertwined with the complications of love and an understanding that is required to complete Banjoman and Greta's life in post-war England.

This is not all fiction, in fact all the characters are drawn from people I've met and interacted with in London and Germany. The fiction is in the linking of these participants to my story.

I hope you enjoy reading it, as much as I did writing it.

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About the Author

Allan was born in Liverpool in 1930. Attended school during the war years, surviving two house bombings and rationing.

He played drums in local dance and jazz bands. Loved ice and roller skating.

When Compulsory Military Service called he joined the RAF and after a year at Catterick, joined the RAF Central Band at Uxbridge as a percussionist.

Leaving the RAF after nine years he toured France and Germany with a jazz group working at the US Bases.

Two years later he joined the RCAF as a percussionist and was stationed with the Training Command Band in Edmonton, Alberta.

From 1965-75 he worked with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra as a percussionist timpanist.

Moving to Victoria in 1975 gave him a chance to enjoy his other hobby, kayaking. Keeping up his ice skating, he graduated to inline skating, which he now enjoys every day the sun shines.

Lastly, enjoying the technology of today, flight simulators are high on his list of interests.

Flying has always fascinated him from the day he was taught to circuit in a Tiger Moth with the Air Cadets in 1944, to obtaining his private licence in 1970 in Edmonton.

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