Waiting For The Day by Leslie Thomas

Waiting For The Day by Leslie Thomas

It is mid-winter, 1943. Britain is gripped by intense cold and in the darkest days of the war. There is no escape from the conflict - it has snaked into every part of everyone's lives. RAF officer Paget is heading home for Christmas on a train slowly dragging itself west, laden with the tanks and guns that will be taken across the Channel when the invasion begins. Sergeant Harris sits in a freezing hut on Salisbury Plain, wishing he can stop teaching green troops and see some real action. In the requisitioned Grange, Lieutenant Miller doesn't know how to celebrate Christmas so far away from his home in the USA; he wonders how the liberation plans afoot can ever succeed. ach one is heading inexorably towards the beaches of France, where the great battle will begin and every man's fate be decided.

The author of one of the biggest best selling titles about soldiers of all time, The Virgin Soldiers, has written his 28th novel, which is a splendidly dramatic story about a group of people waiting for D-Day and the landings in FrancePaget is an RAF officer on leave in the winter of 1943 when the story opens. He returns home to Somerset by slow train and takes part in the Christmas festivities. Sergeant Harris is sitting in a freezing hut on Salisbury Plain teaching green troops and longing for action while Lieutenant Miller of the US army is wondering when the big day will come. Leslie Thomas writes with great power and tells a story beautifully. As a novel this is always convincing and hugely readable.

Author biographyBorn 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.

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ISBN 13	9780434011438
ISBN 10	0434011436
Title	Waiting For The Day
Author	Leslie Thomas
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cornerstone
Year published	2003-11-06
Number of pages	352
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