First Time Solo
Publisher: Freight Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781908754622
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Fiction; FICTION; War & Military
Description: A distinctive debut novel by a mature new voice sheds light on a previously neglected aspect of war, its casualties and victims, and those forces unleashed by a conflict that changed the world forever It''s 1943 and Jack Devine, a farmer''s son from the rural North of Scotland, is finally called up to the RAF. Jack dreams of becoming a pilot, breaking hearts, and returning home a hero. The realities of training are very different, with boredom, bullying, and casual violence the norm. Drawn together by a love of jazz music, Jack makes friends with Terry, a worldly Welshman dabbling in the bla.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; London. April 1943; Babbacombe, Devon. April; title: July 1943; No. 29 EFTS Cliffe Pypard, Wiltshire. July; title: August 1943; Inverayne, Aberdeenshire. August; title: September 1943; Heaton Park, Manchester. September; title: October 1943; RMS Queen Elizabeth, Atlantic Ocean. October 1943; Gratitude; Acknowledgements; Quotations.