Try to Tell the Story

  Copyright © 2009 by David Thomson

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Thomson, David, [date]

  Try to tell the story : a memoir / by David Thomson.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-27133-4

  1. Thomson, David, [date]—Childhood and youth. 2. Film

  critics—United States—Biography. 3. World War,

  1939-1945—Children—Great Britain—Biography.

  4. World War, 1939-1945—Personal narratives, English.

  5. Fathers and sons. I. Title.

  pn1998.3.t469a3 2009

  791.43092—dc22

  [B] 2008019605

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