Coward on the beach
By: James Delingpole
Series: Dick Coward's adventures -- 1.; Coward on the beach -- 1; Coward on the beach -- 1.; Dick Coward's adventures -- 1.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780747590705
Subjects: Fiction; Campaigns; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; World War, 1939-1945; Soldiers; Military campaigns
Description: An ordinary chap in extraordinary circumstances, Dick Coward is Flashman for the 20th century. Caught in all the major events in WWII, he crash lands in Dunkirk, flies Spitfires during the Battle of Britain, sees action in the Western Desert, is captured in Crete and ends up in Stalingrad, where he fights on both sides. He's also at D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge and the Crossing of the Rhine. Through it all his Jeeves-like cynical batman Price keeps Coward alive to fulfill his goal to amass sufficient military glory to satisfy his difficult father--and keep the family estate from his undeserving brother, James.
Table of contents: title: Meet reluctant hero Dick Coward, an ordinary chap in extraordinary circumstances. World War II's answer to Flashman, only much more honourable; title: Dick's a coward by name but not by nature; title: our hero has the uncanny knack of being in just the right place at just the wrong time.