EIGHT HOURS FROM ENGLAND

by Anthony Quayle ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

An almost negligible fictional frame for what must have been authentic experience in a rather unknown sector of the war-Albania. Overton, a young English major, is sent to the Balkans as an agent, an agitator, to stir up the natives against the Germans. Here is the full record of that mission, of isolated, dangerous days; of cold and damp and privation; of the difficulties in lining up the Partisans, more interested in their own private, civil war, than in fighting the Germans; of lack of supplies, though promised, and eventually the failure of that mission as he is forced to clear out. Not perhaps the intrigue and action promised by the publishers, but a genuine and graphic account of one man's war. Masculine appeal.

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Publisher: Doubleday

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1946

Categories: FICTION