None Stood Taller - The Final Year: WW2 Historical Fiction interwoven with inspirational reality - Couverture souple

Turnham, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1916097979 ISBN 13 : 9781916097971

Editeur : P&C Turnham, 2021

Synopsis

Lily remains unable to declare her love for Edward.

Dotty has been captured in Germany.

The D-Day landings are successful. The completion of Operation Overlord marks the end of Lily’s collaboration with Edward. Following the terrible news about Dotty, Lily can sink no lower; her heart is broken. Only destiny can decide her future, and that destiny is Hitler's new vengeance weapon, the V1. From a launch ramp in the Pas-de-Calais, the bringer of death once again reaches out for Lily when a V1 flying bomb leaves Edward critically injured. Hitler’s vengeance weapons present a new and terrible danger to the nation - a danger Station M must rise to.

The character of Lily Heywood is inspired by the life of Vera Atkins, who helped create and operate the SOE F section alongside Colonel Maurice Buckmaster. Step back in time and enter their world. The cast of characters in “None Stood Taller” invites you to experience that life, feel their anxiety, and share their hopes and expectations. But always remember the exploits of those characters pale into insignificance compared to those whose wartime sacrifice granted us our freedom.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

An "unlikely author," I came to writing during enforced rest after snapping my Achilles tendon. In sheer desperation of boredom, I said to my wife Carol, "I'm going to write a novel." Had I said I was going to climb Mount Everest (wearing my leg brace) it would have been equally implausible! Despite being a dyslexic with the resultant short attention span and glacial reading pace, I have found the challenge immensely rewarding and enjoyable, with five novels to my name. Initially, I started with merely the words "Chapter One" but eventually I used a character based on a larger-than-life friend. The story developed spontaneously because I could visualise exactly what my character would say. The other characters then seemed to come and sit beside me, helping me to write their stories. The first title is "Autumn Daffodils - Charlie's Story," quickly followed by the continuation of the same story "Autumn Daffodils - Joanna's Story." Both are achieving modest success, though they are hard to market, not fitting into an easily recognised genre. I then chose a more focused genre, World War Two. Though I live in the Cotswolds, I was born and brought up in London. I used to listen to my parents' conversations about having lived through the Blitz and became very much aware of what they lived through. Thus "None Stood Taller" began, about Lily, a young woman who loses everything in the Blitz. Her incredible journey takes her to the very top of the British wartime establishment and Special Operations Executive (SOE), covering the period from 1941 to D-Day in 1944. Subsequently two more books in the series have been published: "None Stood Taller, The Final Year" covering Lily's life and loves from D-Day to VE-Day, and "None Stood Taller, the Price of Freedom" which is about Lily's good friend Dotty and the war years from her perspective as an SOE field agent. Just published, August 2024, is "Parallel Lives - a Story of the Greatest Generation", which is an inspiring tale about Emma, a doctor at St Thomas's Hospital, London and Roger, a police detective, transporting the reader to when the Hospital was bombed, also the Balham Tube Station disaster, and a killer who roamed the darkened streets of London under the cover of the Blackout.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: P&C Turnham
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1916097979
• ISBN 13: 9781916097971
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 544
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