Our Yanks - Couverture rigide

Mayhew, Margaret

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0312287402 ISBN 13 : 9780312287405

Editeur : Thomas Dunne Books, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Mayhew Margaret

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'I STILL REMEMBER THE YANKS, ALMOST MORE THAN I DO THE WAR'

It was August 1943 - and into the quiet country village of King's Thorpe roared a Fighter Group of the American Eighth Army Air Force. The villagers had never seen anything like them before. They were glamorous, exciting, and ready to win the war.

Some, like the Brigadier, called them 'Damned Yanks' and hated them on sight. They were late for this war just like they'd been for the last. They chewed gum, smoked in the street and whistled at girls.

Young Sally Barnet from the bakery - fifteen-going-on-eighteen - thought them gorgeous and used her large blue eyes to good advantage. Timid Miss Cutteridge found herself forming a warm and wonderful friendship with Corporal Bilsky, who didn't know how to use a cake fork but was great at digging her garden. Nine-year-old Tom Hazlet discovered the Yanks were an excellent source of business and traded stolen eggs for cigarettes which he sold at a profit. He really liked the Yanks. On young, newly-widowed Erika Beauchamp, and Agnes Dawes, the Rector's daughter, the Americans were to make an overwhelming emotional impact.

The one thing you couldn't do about the Yanks was ignore them, and finally everyone - even the Brigadier - came to accept them as their own. They became OUR YANKS.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

I STILL REMEMBER THE YANKS, ALMOST MORE THAN I DO THE WAR' A Suffolk woman.

It was August 1943 - and the inhabitants of King's Thorpe had lived with the idea of invasion for some time - but by the Germans, not the Americans. The village had never seen anything like them before - certainly they were different with their wealth, their glamour, and their louche but romantic uniforms. Some of the older villagers, like the Brigadier, resented them on sight, others welcomed them with weak tea and fish paste sandwiches. But in some lives they were to make a long-lasting and emotional impact - most especially young Sally Barnet from the bakery, Agnes Dawe, the Rector's daughter, and newly-widowed Lady Beauchamp from the Manor.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Thomas Dunne Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312287402
• ISBN 13: 9780312287405
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 339