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Love Letters from a Desert Rat: Alex and Nan's Story by: Liz Macintyre List Price: £16.99 City Travel Guides Price: £11.89 You Save: £5.10 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 940 EAN: 9780752447063 ISBN: 0752447068 Label: The History Press Manufacturer: The History Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: September 05, 2008 Publisher: The History Press Studio: The History Press Sales Rank: 64282 Browse for similar items by category:
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 Rating: - Love Letters from a Desert RatI loved this book - authentic, with a unique point of view and commentary, the voice of Alex Macintyre with his masterly understatement, gentle but wry sense of humour, determination to prevail but most of all his unswerving love and devotion to the wife of only a few weeks, Nan, the girl he had to leave in January 1941. It is a series of letters to Nan from 1941-45. The brutality of war is left to the reader's imagination, but the effect is all the more powerful for that. Alex reflects in his very personal style about the summer of '41, that things "were at times a wee bit hectic." In his letter of 29 December 1942, as though predicting how his half of this long-distance conversation would be shaped into a wonderful story, Alex talks of "the ... Read More: |
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