This book single-handedly shaped a lot of what happened in my early childhood. Just as the Paul Street Boys formed their "army" to defend their "grund," I too, influenced by the book, formed my own club together with a bunch of schoolmates to "fight" against an "opposing army." I was barely 10-years-old when I read this book, and the story stayed with me for much of my childhood and into my teenage years as well. It has been about 40 years since then, and it was such a great surprise when I was able to find it at the University's library! If you ever dreamed up about battlefields, fighting for …
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