Other Times

Thomas, Leslie

ISBN 10: 0099415232 / ISBN 13: 9780099415237

Verlag: Arrow, 2000

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers E-9780099415237-6-2

Inhaltsangabe:

At the start of the war in 1939 James Bevan is a junior officer approaching middle-age, attached to a small anti-aircraft unit on the south coast.

Abandoned by his wife, the soldiers he command are his family: Bairnsfather, whose sexual encounters with his girl friend Muriel take place in an air-raid shelter; Cartwright, trying to keep two women on his gunner's pay of a shilling a day; Hignet, cosily educating himself in the orderly room. It is a rude awakening when they are called upon for the real war.

Hugely absorbing, rich and rewarding, Other Times brims with history and experience, love, sorrow and humour.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Born in Newport, Monmouthshire in 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost at sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a reporter, before going on to do his national service. He won worldwide acclaim with his bestselling novel The Virgin Soldiers, which has achieved international sales of over two million copies.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Other Times
Verlag: Arrow
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very good