Night Mission: Seven WWII Era Stories

ISBN-13: 9781505420685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 44 str.

Clive Lodge; Lesley Lodge

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Seven short stories inspired by the author's experiences in World War II and the decade after. Clive Lodge (born 1909) served in the RAF as a navigator with the rank of flight lieutenant. He usually flew Beaufighters, but like many people he had a deep affection for the Spitfire. Clive's active service was with night-fighters - the setting for the short story Night Mission. The Tunnel, by contrast, is set in peacetime, some years after the war but the writing clearly reveals how the unpunished atrocities of war can haunt a person. Clive's stories are very much of their time and they reflect the thinking and values of those years. Something She Said, for example, is about physical passion but the attitude towards premarital sex revealed by the first person narrator - and therefore the logic of its twist - would be almost incomprehensible to, say, today's teenagers in the UK. There's No Scar Now - with its gripping opener "I killed John James Beresford" is set in Kent and draws on Clive's experience in the Home Guard before he enlisted in the RAF. In all seven of these stories the detail and atmosphere evoked will take you back to those days.