Tommy Steele Livres

Surrounded by docks and sitting on the South-East of the Thames 1930's Bermondsey was a thriving place. And it was here that Thomas Hicks was born. It wasn't until much later that this Bermondsey boy would become known as Tommy Steele. Saturdays as a young boy were spent gazing at the colourful posters for the Palladium, or wandering up Tower Bridge Road to Joyce's Pie Shop for pie and mash. He brings to life with extraordinary vividness what it was like to live through the devastation of the Blitz - having to run to the shelter naked in the middle of the night wondering as each bomb crashed down, which street had taken a hit. His beloved father, Darbo, was a tipster who worked the crowds at the races by day, and by night was a doorman at The Nest, an infamous watering hole for entertainers and his mother Betty, was a part-time tin basher at Feaversbox factory. The Hicks household was full of love and laughter but also struck by tragedy with the loss of three children.

1940. Britain looked set to lose the war. Thousands of British soldiers were stranded on the beaches on Dunkirk, awaiting the inexorable German onslaught... But then there was silence. Poised for the final kill, the German forces stopped in their tracks. Nobody knows why. But what if the Germans thought that Britain was ready to make peace? What if the Fuhrer were offered a deal which would give him supremacy over Europe? And what if Churchill himself made the Deal? The answer to the victory of Dunkirk lies in THE FINAL RUN.