Waiting For the Day
分類: 图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类),Genre Fiction(类型小说),
品牌: Leslie Thomas
基本信息出版社:Arrow; New edition (2004年7月27日)平装:320页正文语种:英语ISBN:0099457199条形码:9780099457190商品尺寸:10.8 x 2.5 x 17.8 cm商品重量:254 gASIN:0099457199商品描述内容简介Midwinter, 1943. Britain is gripped by intense cold and in the darkest days of the war. It is six months before D-Day. RAF officer Paget is heading home for Christmas, back to the resurrection of a passion he thought was long over. Sergeant Harris is training his troops for landing on the shores of Normandy, but his thoughts are about how is young wife is coping with his absence. Lieutenant Miller is having an affair with an Englishwoman which is both bittersweet and potentially dangerous. Cook Sergeant Fred Weber is enjoying fishing but his calm will soon be shattered. Each man is heading inexorably towards the beaches of France, where the great battle will commence. . .作者简介Born 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.