Description
The war, they said, would be over by Christmas. That was in 1939, and it is now January 1944. An exhausted Britain faces another year of conflict.
Meanwhile, small coastal villages in Devon are facing an invasion from an army just as foreign as that of the Germans. The Americans are smart, well-fed and well-equipped, and they have swept the bewildered citizens of South Devon from their homes in deadly earnest rehearsal for D-Day.
As the beaches echo to the sound of bullets and the local church to the strains of Glenn Miller, Americans and English are thrown together with sometimes hilarious, sometimes painful and puzzling results.
'Thomas just keeps on giving fiction a good name'Daily Mail
About the Author
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.
Reviews
It's bawdy, funny, sad and sometimes sorry and it brought those times vividly back * Daily Mail *
Book Information
ISBN 9780099469179
Author Leslie Thomas
Format Paperback
Page Count 656
Imprint Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher Cornerstone
Weight(grams) 343g
Dimensions(mm) 178mm * 110mm * 40mm
