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Familiar Voices (Paperback)

by Frank Harbord (Author)
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  • Paperback: 284 pages
  • Publisher: Able Publishing (Nov 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0907616550
  • ISBN-13: 978-0907616559
  • Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 14.4 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,726,873 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Covers period 1936-1939 and Second World War.

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5.0 out of 5 stars STANDING ALONE, 3 Aug 2002
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This personal memoir begins in the 1920's and thirties in a the tranquility of a small English village but moves on to the grander stage of the second world war. It tells the story of a man who joined the RAF in 1938 at the age of 20. Within 2 years the author was taking off daily in a Bristol Blenheim light bomber of 82 Squadronn from Watton in Norfolk to risk life and limb trying to stem the German advance on the channel ports. After surviving this horror the action moved to the siege of Malta (reduced to rubble by daily bombing) and ship hunting in the mediterranean. After more miraculous escapes the author, a navigator, enclosed in the perspex nose cone of the Blenheim moved on th Burma. There is humour and tragedy as the RAF heroically assisted in the defeat of the Japanese advance on India. The Blenheim's of 60 squadron did sterling work in an inhospitable climate. Then more encounters with death on the journey home. The story is absorbingly told with humour and great attention to detail. Redolent of a bygone age the pages conjure up memories of a world all but disappeared in the modern age. The author saw much destruction and heroism in the war years and also encountered the infuriating woodenness of bureaucracy. This book is an antidote to bland postmodern churn and reminds us of a time when the truth mattered, wars were fought between equally matched great powers and many young men never saw their 2oth birthday.
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