Book description
Mid-winter, 1943. Britain is gripped by intense cold and in the
darkest days of the war. It is six months before D-Day and the battle
to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe.
RAF officer Martin Paget is returning home for Christmas He has been
on covert operations in France and knows he has to return there. While
in England, he rediscovers a passion that he thought was long over.
In a freezing hut on Salisbury Plain, Sergeant Harris's mind is
occupied by questions of just how his young and ebullient wife is
coping with their separation. His troops are training for landing on
the shores of Normandy.
US officer Harry Miller arrives in Somerset where his American
division has set up its headquarters. His affair with an Englishwoman
is both bittersweet and potentially dangerous.
Enjoying fishing off the coast of occupied Jersey is German cook
sergeant Fred Weber. He believes he has found a sort of peace in the
midst of the terrible conflict. But his calm is soon to be shattered
as his war takes on a violent twist...
Each man is heading inexorably towards the beaches of France where
the great battle will begin...
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. Waiting for the
Day is his twenty-eighth novel.
