Dearest and the Best

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Leslie Thomas, Thomas Leslie
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.2011
• EAN: 9780099550235
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955023-5
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 178 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Family life fiction, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), The New Forest