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  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446439500
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

The Virgin Soldiers




Leslie Thomas's best-known and most enduring novel, published for the first time in Arrow Books and repackaged in a beautiful new look for a new audience.

'It rained a lot and steamed when the sun shone. It was always hot. But it was safe...'

One way or another the Communist guerrilla war in Malaya kept a whole British army occupied from 1948 until 1952. They were the virgin soldiers. Idle, homesick, afraid, bored, oversexed and unsatisfied.

A young virgin like Brigg had to grab his fun while and where he could - in the Liberty Club, in Juicy Lucy's flat or up in Phillipa's room - in one frantic attempt at living before he died or got demobbed...

  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446439500
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

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 Virgin Soldiers

'Scenes rivalling the best of D. H. Lawrence'

Daily Telegraph

'Truly exciting'

Daily Mail

'Splendidly conveys...compassion, excitement, entertainment'

Evening Standard