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The Forgotten War by: David Fiddimore List Price: £7.99 City Travel Guides Price: £5.94 You Save: £2.05 (26%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92 EAN: 9780330446945 ISBN: 0330446940 Label: Pan Books Manufacturer: Pan Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: March 07, 2008 Publisher: Pan Books Studio: Pan Books Sales Rank: 51181 Related Items: Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: Synopsis: The third book in the wartime series continuing from Tuesday's War and Charlie's War. The war's over. Charlie Bassett is one of England's brave young survivors. Haunted by one woman's smile and by his wartime adventures, he finally returns back home to try to pick up the pieces of his broken life. There's just one small problem - everyone thinks he's dead. Arrested as a deserter, his only way out of prison is to work for a shadowy government agency monitoring the growth of Communism in post-war Europe. Special radio missions keep him busy in the air, while his all-female team, headed up by the icy Miss Miller, keeps his feet firmly on the ground. But then Charlie is forced to go undercover as a spy in a Communist group called the Rubble Rats.The government calls them the Red Menace, but Charlie finds a group of hard-working families just trying to get by - and his loyalties are torn. When he discovers that Grace Baker is one of them, Charlie must make some difficult decisions. For king and country? Or for the woman he once loved? Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Excellent!!!The trilogy reaches its peak with panache. Charlie has lived in a world where truth is stranger than fiction, so where it is fiction it is extremely difficult to portray with balance and conviction and David Fiddimore has improved with each book. Does it have to remain a trilogy? There is plenty of material out there for Charlie to be involved with and plenty of decades in which it could happen. I hope to meet him again, Mr. Fiddimore, if you should ever happen across this. I'll say it again. EXCELLENT!!! Rating: - Charlie the sparks in action again; but what kind of action?Another book that was hard to put down. Charlie may be moving nearer the modern age as we see how post-war England developed back toward a normal society. These episodes were foundations for some of our institutions today, all put together with the hilarious cast Charlie finds around him. Rating: - Excellent! More please.The third volume featuring Charlie Bassett and his war time exploits in the RAF. This time we find him in the immediate post-war era when it was a very strange world as some sort of peace descended on the battered survivors. He becomes involved in the initial hostilities between the allies and the Soviets, the forgotten war of the title. There is also the irksome matter of the rise of communist sympathies within the West. Another masterful dialogue in the first person mode, though this time we learn that he is recalling events whilst in his eighties and living in contemporary times. The only thing that jars slightly in this episode is the relentless sexual abandon which pervades his life and those around him. Was it really like this? I suppose ... Read More: Rating: - Charlie's Return - eagerly awaitied and not disappointedSet in 1947, the third volume of the exploits of Charlie Bassett sees him returning from an extended period overseas to pick up the threads of his life. After an initial hiccup which sees him thrown into jail as a deserter, he is released to work in his old trade of Radio Operator for the RAF. In this book Charlie is older and shrewder, if not wiser (especially where women are concerned). David Fiddimore has skilfully woven facts from his own background into a fine and gripping tale. Once again the story cracks and fizzes along. He conjurs up the weariness and paranoia of the immediate post-war years with consumate skill - a world where the old rules haven't quite been abandoned, and the new ones haven't quite been adopted. ... Read More: |
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