Adam Tomacevski is a Polish airman, flying Hurricanes alongside
British pilots as the Battle of Britain rages in the summer skies
over Kent and Sussex. Always something of an outsider back on the
ground, Adam finds himself drawn to a maverick Irish soldier named
Gerry Cunningham. "You're out of luck, brother," are the first words
Gerry says when they meet in the crush of men competing for the few
women at a dance in a seaside hotel, but when Gerry abandons his
lover Moira, Adam's fortunes seem to have changed. For the next four
years, Adam's life and Gerry's are intertwined like good luck and
bad, love and loss, life and death, their paths crossing at various
points on Adam's perilous journey from the ruins of Poland to the
rolling English countryside, from Egypt to Occupied France. A
hauntingly evocative picture of wartime Britain, an explosive drama
of fighting behind enemy lines, a compelling, suspenseful love story,
A Good War proves Patrick Bishop - already acclaimed as a historian
of the war in the air - to be a superbly gifted novelist.
Book Details:
Edition Info: Paperback; 2008-05-01
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