Book description
Adam Tomaszewski is a Polish airman, flying Hurricanes alongside
British pilots as the Battle of Britain rages in the summer skies over
Kent and Sussex. Facing death daily and far from his friends and family,
Adam finds himself drawn to a maverick Irish soldier called Gerry
Cunningham. 'You're out of luck, brother,' are the first words Gerry
says when they meet in the crush of men competing for the few women at a
dance in a seaside hotel, but when Gerry betrays his lover Moira, Adam's
fortunes seem to have changed. For the next four years, Adam's life and
Gerry's are intertwined like good luck and bad, love and loss, life and
death, their paths crossing at various points on Adam's perilous journey
from the ruins of Poland to the rolling English countryside, from Egypt
to Occupied France. A hauntingly evocative picture of wartime Britain, a
twisting drama of fighting behind enemy lines, a compelling, suspenseful
love story, A GOOD WAR proves Patrick Bishop - already acclaimed as a
great historian of the war in the air - to be a superbly gifted
novelist. Patrick Bishop spent twenty-five years as a foreign
correspondent covering conflicts around the world. He is the author of
two hugely acclaimed books about the Royal Air Force during the Second
World War,
Fighter Boys
and Bomber Boys
, and a novel of the period, A Good War
. His most recent bestseller is Ground Truth
, which follows up the story of 3 Para
, an epic account of the British deployment to Afghanistan in the summer
of 2006. Patrick Bishop's second novel, FOLLOW ME HOME, set in
Afghanistan during the recent conflict, was published by Hodder &
Stoughton in 2011.
