I wandered into my local Library last week, first time for a year or so. I was most surprised to learn that the WW1 and WW II books had been seriously thinned out. It was pointed out that fewer and fewer people were taking out the books and most had been sold off. The place was more like a cyber cafe than a library, lots of people tapping away on the internet access computers with hardly any looking at the books. Sad really.

yes I used to get a lot of autobios from the library,to be fair to them…they can only keep the books on the shelf for so long and then they get ‘retired’

Also forgot ‘Fate is the Hunter’ by Ernest K Gann..really is ‘unputdownable’

cheers baz