Urban Nomad

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-no-proof: yes>The genesis of London's East End was to provide labour to first build and then operate the docks factories warehouses and all the allied trades connected to them. Occasionally amidst the deprivation and hardship one person will stand out not in a nasty way more as exhibiting a superior survival skill such a person is George Mathias.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>George is an East End urchin crafty streetwise educated enough to get by and like all his classmates destined to lead a traditional life of hard labour and providing the Cannon Fodder for the Second World War.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>Unlike (most of) his classmates he is a result of the revelry that followed the end of the First World War and was bypassed by traditional family love and affection.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>But George is a bit sharper than most he's had to be to even reach the Second World War.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>It changes him profoundly affected by personal loss his passions go deep:<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>so deep there is a barrier that even he cannot recognise or define and is barely aware of.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>He returns to his previous life an embittered but Decorated man.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>To survive he does things that whilst he is not exactly ashamed of them he wouldn't really want his friends to know about.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>Single-mindedness enabled his talents to be recognised before during and after the war. He has a token of luck which he exploits to the full.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>Then one person manages to change him or more accurately rescue him to eventually lead a normal life.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-no-proof: yes><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN></SPAN>