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This second book in the "Airborne" trilogy follows the paratrooper Theo Trickey as he looks back over the remarkable and storied war behind him, which saw Erwin Rommel take a mysterious interest in him.
About the author
Robert Radcliffe was born and educated in London. A journalist and advertising copywriter, he also spent ten years working as a commercial pilot, flying all over the world. He is the bestselling author of nine novels, including The Lazarus Child, Under an English Heaven and Dambuster. He lives in Suffolk.
Summary
'A born storyteller' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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Dreadfully injured in the Arnhem landings, paratrooper Theo Trickey was
never expected to survive. Medical Officer Captain Daniel Garland pulled Trickey's comatose body from a pile of corpses, keeping him alive as they were shipped to a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany.
As Garland discovers, Trickey has had a remarkable war. Boy soldier, commando, paratrooper, intelligence officer – fighting from northern France to the African desert. But that's not all.
What was Trickey's connection with Germany's greatest general, the recently deceased Erwin Rommel? Why have the Desert Fox's loyalest officers tracked him down and just what is it that they want Garland to do?
Freefall is the second part of Radcliffe's Airborne trilogy which tells the extraordinary story of a young soldier, a new regiment and how, together, they
changed the course of a war.
'A must-read: deft, vivid, painfully well-observed' Graham Hurley, author of Finisterre.
Foreword
From a million-copy bestselling author comes the second instalment in the Airborne trilogy centered on the WW2 parachute regiment.
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A rattlingly good yarn, the literary version of a Hollywood blockbuster' New Statesman.
