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The Magic Army
  • Published: 13 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446440636
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 656

The Magic Army




'Thomas just keeps on giving fiction a good name'Daily Mail

The war, they said, would be over by Christmas. That was in 1939, and it is now January 1944. An exhausted Britain faces another year of conflict.

Meanwhile, small coastal villages in Devon are facing an invasion from an army just as foreign as that of the Germans. The Americans are smart, well-fed and well-equipped, and they have swept the bewildered citizens of South Devon from their homes in deadly earnest rehearsal for D-Day.

As the beaches echo to the sound of bullets and the local church to the strains of Glenn Miller, Americans and English are thrown together with sometimes hilarious, sometimes painful and puzzling results.

  • Published: 13 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446440636
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 656

About the author

Leslie Thomas

Born in Newport, Monmouthshire in 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost at 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.

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Praise for The Magic Army

It's bawdy, funny, sad and sometimes sorry and it brought those times vividly back

Daily Mail