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A DRAMATIC AND MOVING STORY OF THE INCREDIBLE D-DAY LANDINGS FROM THE WELL-KNOWN WRITER OF WARTIME FICTION
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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.
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- EditoreArrow
- Data di pubblicazione2004
- ISBN 10 0099457199
- ISBN 13 9780099457190
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero edizione1
- Numero di pagine448
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