Night Mission: Seven WWII Era Stories by Lodge, Lesley

Night Mission: Seven WWII Era Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781505420685)

Vendor: Lesley Lodge
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Format: Paperback
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Night Mission: Seven WWII Era Stories by Lodge, Lesley

Night Mission: Seven WWII Era Stories

$6.75
Night Mission: Seven WWII Era Stories by Lodge, Lesley

Night Mission: Seven WWII Era Stories

$6.75
Format: Paperback
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Night Mission with its burning plane, heroism - and greed was - like the other six short stories in this collection - inspired by Clive Lodge's experiences in World War II and the decade after. There's No Scar Now - with its gripping opener "I killed John James Beresford" is set in Kent and draws on his experience in the Home Guard before he enlisted in the RAF. The Tunnel, by contrast, is set in peacetime, some years after the war but reveals how 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 - and therefore the logic of its twist - would be almost incomprehensible to, say, today's teenagers in the UK. In all seven of these stories the detail and atmosphere evoked will take you back to those days of the War and just after.

Author: Lesley Lodge,Clive Lodge
ISBN-10: 1505420687
ISBN-13: 9781505420685
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2014
Pages: 44
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d
By Lesley Lodge
By Lesley Lodge
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Clive Lodge was born in 1909. He joined the RAF voluntarily during the Second World War, serving mainly as a navigator with the rank of flight lieutenant. He usually flew Beaufighters - on night-fighting missions - but like many people he always had a deep affection for the Spitfire. Immediately after the war he was sent to India as an Intelligence Officer to investigate the causes of crashes by planes returning British troops home. After leaving the RAF, Clive worked in banking for many years but his twin preoccupations were inventions - he won medals for his fog lamp and his cloches designs - and boats - he and a couple of friends set up a boat yard in Lymington, Hampshire, making power boats. Always active, at seventy, he fell out of an oak tree, electric saw in hand. Amazingly he survived the fall. Clive Lodge died in 1983.

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