Book description
In the spring of 1940, the spectre of war turned into grim reality.
And on the English home front, men, women and children found
themselves swept into a maelstrom of fear and uncertainty while events
abroad led inexorably from the debacles of Norway and Dunkirk to the
horror and glory of the Battle of Britain.
For the Lovatt family - James, seconded on a hush-hush assignment to
work with Churchill, and his brother Harry, a naval officer - for Bess
Spofford, Joanne Schorner, Graham Smit and all the inhabitants of the
history villages of the New Forest, it was the beginning of the most
bizarre, funny and tragic episode of their lives.
Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a
sailor who was lost of 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.
