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The Magic Army
Leslie Thomas
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Description for The Magic Army
Paperback. New Year's Eve 1943 - the tiny village of Slapton is told that it has to be evacuated. American troops are occupying the wide district of South Devon. The Americans are prepared for animosity, but not for the harsh conditions the war in Europe has imposed upon the civilian population of England. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 110 x 42. Weight in Grams: 358.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099469179
SKU
V9780099469179
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Ref
99-2
About Leslie Thomas
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Magic Army
It's bawdy, funny, sad and sometimes sorry and it brought those times vividly back
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