{"product_id":"across-the-broken-years-hardship-brutality-and-resilience-300-years-one-family-paperback","title":"Across the Broken Years: Hardship, Brutality and Resilience 300 years. One Family. - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKit Sadgrove\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Legacy of Survival\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeaten each week at a Catholic boarding school, Kit Sadgrove grew up in a world ruled by fear and silence. But this remarkable memoir goes far beyond the school gates. Woven through his own harrowing yet hopeful story is the tale of his ancestors-lives marked by hardship, resilience, and astonishing adventure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStep into the shadows of a Georgian workhouse, where Sadgrove's great-great-grandmother clung to life while burying two children there. Sail into battle during the Napoleonic Wars as a 14-year-old recruit. Stand on the boggy soil where his ancestors eked out a living - and the aristocratic ballrooms of Dublin where they finally danced. Follow his mother, as she flees the advancing Nazis, and Victor, his father, as he takes the surrender of the German forces in WWII. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom bomb-making and scrubbing toilets on North Sea rigs to riding freight trains across America, Sadgrove's life is anything but ordinary. Spanning 300 years, this gripping memoir is part family saga, part personal reckoning-and every word of it a true story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrue stories: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAttacked by a highwayman\u003cbr\u003eTwo public hangings\u003cbr\u003eCondemned to a hulk prison ship\u003cbr\u003eFighting the nascent US navy\u003cbr\u003eAttacking Napoleon's army \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiving in the slums of London\u003cbr\u003eA bigamous marriage\u003cbr\u003eMy family's  2.1m ($2.8m) forgeries\u003cbr\u003eWe are bankrupt\u003cbr\u003eThe biggest fraud ever \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur aircraft manufacturing business in 1916\u003cbr\u003eSurviving the Irish Famine in 1845\u003cbr\u003eThe Irish insurrection 1916\u003cbr\u003eGoing to war in Mesopotamia\u003cbr\u003eGetting the first ever self-winding wrist watch \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeing Master and Matron of a workhouse\u003cbr\u003eSending orphan children out to work in the streets\u003cbr\u003eLife as a gunner in WW1\u003cbr\u003eFinding love in Rome\u003cbr\u003eLiving in a house without electricity \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSent to boarding school at age 5\u003cbr\u003eSurviving on sugar sandwiches\u003cbr\u003eBeaten for not being good at maths\u003cbr\u003eEncounters with 11 paedophiles\u003cbr\u003eConfessing to masturbation \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe right eyeball of a martyred saint\u003cbr\u003eThomas Becket's skull\u003cbr\u003eA thorn from Jesus' crown of thorns\u003cbr\u003e18 mortal sins\u003cbr\u003eThe things have stolen \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA knife attack in church\u003cbr\u003eDeath from work related silicosis\u003cbr\u003eWeekly corporal punishments\u003cbr\u003eThe first supermarket\u003cbr\u003eWorking at a strike bound construction site \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCleaning toilets in the North Sea\u003cbr\u003eHitchhiking across the USA\u003cbr\u003eRiding freight trains\u003cbr\u003eMy first sexual encounters\u003cbr\u003eWomen I have known \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMy work colleague is killed by a drunk\u003cbr\u003eI become a millionaire\u003cbr\u003ePlanning for a nuclear war\u003cbr\u003eMy protest outside the US embassy\u003cbr\u003eI create a national newspaper\u003cbr\u003eMe and Arthur Scargill\u003cbr\u003eI become a fake priest\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 282\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 21, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44226988834951,"sku":"9798230488378","price":33.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/IDCX9U8YJS9798230488378.webp?v=1773899407","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/across-the-broken-years-hardship-brutality-and-resilience-300-years-one-family-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}