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Chargement... Going to the Warspar John Verney
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Interesting account of a soldier's experience first in the Yeomanry, and then in the special forces, in World War II. Verney seems to have a great deal of humour regarding his service, since a great deal of it went wrong, including the only special forces mission he was on. In fact, that mission went spectacularly wrong in so many respects, it's a wonder he lived to tell the tale. ( ) This is a graceful book. Mr. Verney gained a living after the war as an illustrator. He signed up to fight Hitler, and he did that. The book details his military career, and has very amusing portraits of his co-workers. He does have to tell of his unsuccessful Commando raid in Sardinia, which resulted in a period in an Italian and then a German prison camp. He threw himself off a train in the winter of 1943, while being shipped north out of Italy, and walked south into the Eighth Army. I think his war, that of a man out of place, and deeply missing his wife and child, was far more typical of both sides in the war. "Inglorious Basterds" is a lame, by the numbers, gorefest, this is a humane book and worth the read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Delightful reading."âe*The Economist "This book is unclassifiable: commentary, autobiography, satire by turns: but it is wholly readable, wholly successful. The author stands spokesman for a whole generation."âe*Daily Telegraph "My brother officers. Are they human?" Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty-three-year-old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxford, lover of modern art and literature, who has, almost on a whim, joined a part-time cavalry regiment of the British Army in 1937. At the outbreak of World War II two years later, Verney arrives in the Middle East and there learns, almost in spite of himself, to be a soldier. In 1943, he becomes a parachutist and leads a "drop" into Sardinia to attack German airfields. His adventures there--two weeks wandering through enemy territory, his capture, and his eventual escape--are brilliantly told. Woven into the fabric of this narrative of a young man growing reluctantly to maturity and coming to terms with military life, are Verney's thoughts and feelings about his wife, Lucinda, and the child he has never seen, and his longing to return to them. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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