by Leslie Thomas (Author)
At the start of the war in 1939 James Bevan is a junior officer approaching middle-age, attached to a small anti-aircraft unit on the south coast. Abandoned by his wife, the soldiers he command are his family: Bairnsfather, whose sexual encounters with his girl friend Muriel take place in an air-raid shelter; Cartwright, trying to keep two women on his gunner's pay of a shilling a day; Hignet, cosily educating himself in the orderly room. It is a rude awakening when they are called upon for the real war. Hugely absorbing, rich and rewarding, Other Times brims with history and experience, love, sorrow and humour.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 03 Aug 2000
ISBN 10: 0099415232
ISBN 13: 9780099415237
Book Overview: There are those who will think of this story as a tale from history; to others it will seem that it happened only yesterday