War Wounds

by Richard Townshend Bickers

Britain during World WII.

For one man, this war is personal.

Templer regards the German enemies with a deep personal hatred.

During the Great War he suffered debilitating wounds, and in World War Two he was again injured.

When enemy bomber crews attacked the station where he worked, his wife was killed.

He is determined to take revenge.

But, unlike his father, Templer’s son looks kindly upon the enemy.

On another RAF station, he was shot down.

In the course of his escape from Germany, unexpected help convinces him there are people there opposed to the Nazis there as well.

When Templer Senior takes a German pilot prisoner, he gains his opportunity for revenge.

But will his son be successful in saving the prisoner’s life, as well his father’s career and sanity?

‘War Wounds’ is an authentic and dramatic military thriller set in Britain during the savage warfare of the Second World War.

161 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Richard Leslie Townshend Bickers has written more books about the RAF and its predecessor, the RFC, than any other author past or present - some under a pseudonym. Being multilingual, he does his own research in foreign archives and by interviews and correspondence. His short stories and newspaper articles were first published and broadcast while he was a serving RAF officer. By the time he left the RAF his first four novels had appeared. His biography of his friend "Ginger" Lacey, the top-scoring pilot in the Battle of Britain, was published to acclaim in 1962.Bickers volunteered for the RAF on the outbreak of war and served, with a Permanent Commission, for eighteen years. In England he operated with Fighter and Coastal Commands; in North Africa and Italy with Desert Air Force and Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Force. After the war he did a tour in Hong Kong and Malaya.