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First published under the pseudonym of Flying Officer X, H. E. Bates’s stories of the heroic exploits of British bomber crews during the Second World War created a sensation when they appeared in 1942, selling over two million copies all over the world. Bates lived among the painfully young pilots and recorded their lives, and those of their loved ones, with an emotional attention that deeply moved the generation that lived through the war, and an intensity that reverberates down the decades.
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"After 60 years of writing and reading, I would place H.E. Bates as one of the best short-story writers of my time" (Graham Greene)
"One of the most vividly evocative writers of English ... able to conjure up in a handful of words whole landscapes and moods" (Listener)
"H.E. Bates could achieve a quality of lyrical intensity that few contemporary novelists can match" (Times Literary Supplement)
"He was without an equal in England in the kind of story he had made his own and stood in the direct line of succession of fiction writers of English countryside and that includes George Eliot, Hardy and D. H. Lawrence" (The Times)
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- PublisherChivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0754045439
- ISBN 13 9780754045434
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex library with stamp to the ffep and top of the closed page edges. Glazed pictorial boards. A slight lean to boards and cracking to the spine. Corners lightly bumped. No inscriptions. 256pp. Clean and bright pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request). Seller Inventory # 020393
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