Description
<p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">Elisabeth was rude and selfish and demanding, and therefore had very few friends.<span> </span>When she sent out invitations to her birthday party, no one accepted.<span> </span>Her mother warned her that she needed to improve her manners and to try to get along with people.<span> </span>She told Elisabeth that she needed to use the magic word “Please”.<span> </span>So when Elisabeth went to school the next day, she thought of her mother’s advice, “What is the magic word?” and she started saying “Please” and also “Thank You”.<span> </span>She tried to become more thoughtful of others, and discovered that she was a much happier person.<span> </span>Imagine her pleasure when she returned home to find out that her new friends were all coming to her birthday party!</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"></span></p><p></p>
Story Behind The Book
An Englishman born just after the Great Depression has the misfortune to grow up in the normal state of poverty for that time as the world goes into the Second World War.
These experiences shape his perspective as he survives the war and a very disrupted education then soon afterwards is conscripted into the RAF. after a short stint of working down a Coal Mine as directed labor. His experiences in the service were a mixture of farce and folly. He was sent to Germany by the RAF and returned later as a civilian to work with the Americans.
He has a mixture of careers, travells extensively, survives three bad marriages, makes a fortune and is robbed in the final Divorce by fraudulent documents and what he had left was taken by a so called friend who also defrauded him. The subject is however a survivor and does finally find some peace.
