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Main Force Country
Main Force Country is the first book of the Until the Night Series and is set in September 1943.
The Until the Night Series is about Bomber Command in the winter of 1943-44 and follows the experience of Adam Chantrey, a 25-year old veteran of the bombing war sent to Ansham Wolds in Lincolnshire to rebuild a shattered Lancaster squadron.
Exhausted and tormented by his own demons he discovers, amidst the chaos of war and loss an unlikely inner peace up on the High Wold of Lincolnshire while all around him the world is enveloped in madness.
It is September 1943 and Bomber Command is gathering itself for what many in the High Command believe will be its final victorious campaign; but even the true believers in the ‘main aim’ know that the coming winter battle will be bloodier than anything which has gone before.
Here in the heart of rural England, in Lincolnshire and elsewhere on the East Coast airfields of the Main Force all the years of building up and preparation are about to come to fruition and everybody knows that this is the lull before the coming storm.
For Adam Chantrey, looking forward to the fifth year of his personal odyssey duty has become his watchword, and life on the squadrons his only reality. And then one day while waiting for a train that is late, he encounters a different fate...
And afterwards, nothing will ever be the same again.
PLEASE BE AWARE – THIS IS BOOK IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN AN OMNIBUS AMAZON KINDLE EDITION TITLED ‘UNTIL THE NIGHT’, A REVISED SECOND EDITION OF A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK OF THE SAME NAME.
This (SECOND) edition respects the characterisation and narrative of the first edition but has been re-edited and re-presented in a modified format designed to be more user friendly to Kindle and other e-book publishing platforms.
The ‘Until the Night Series’ is:-
Book 1: Main Force Country – September 1943
Book 2: The Road to Berlin – October 1943
Book 3: The Big City – November 1943
Book 4: When Winter Comes – December 1943
Book 5: After Midnight – January 1944
All five books of the ‘Until the Night Series’ are available free to subscribers to Kindle Unlimited.
This reproofed and re-formatted version of Main Force Country was uploaded on 15th February 2018.
The Until the Night Series is about Bomber Command in the winter of 1943-44 and follows the experience of Adam Chantrey, a 25-year old veteran of the bombing war sent to Ansham Wolds in Lincolnshire to rebuild a shattered Lancaster squadron.
Exhausted and tormented by his own demons he discovers, amidst the chaos of war and loss an unlikely inner peace up on the High Wold of Lincolnshire while all around him the world is enveloped in madness.
It is September 1943 and Bomber Command is gathering itself for what many in the High Command believe will be its final victorious campaign; but even the true believers in the ‘main aim’ know that the coming winter battle will be bloodier than anything which has gone before.
Here in the heart of rural England, in Lincolnshire and elsewhere on the East Coast airfields of the Main Force all the years of building up and preparation are about to come to fruition and everybody knows that this is the lull before the coming storm.
For Adam Chantrey, looking forward to the fifth year of his personal odyssey duty has become his watchword, and life on the squadrons his only reality. And then one day while waiting for a train that is late, he encounters a different fate...
And afterwards, nothing will ever be the same again.
PLEASE BE AWARE – THIS IS BOOK IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN AN OMNIBUS AMAZON KINDLE EDITION TITLED ‘UNTIL THE NIGHT’, A REVISED SECOND EDITION OF A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK OF THE SAME NAME.
This (SECOND) edition respects the characterisation and narrative of the first edition but has been re-edited and re-presented in a modified format designed to be more user friendly to Kindle and other e-book publishing platforms.
The ‘Until the Night Series’ is:-
Book 1: Main Force Country – September 1943
Book 2: The Road to Berlin – October 1943
Book 3: The Big City – November 1943
Book 4: When Winter Comes – December 1943
Book 5: After Midnight – January 1944
All five books of the ‘Until the Night Series’ are available free to subscribers to Kindle Unlimited.
This reproofed and re-formatted version of Main Force Country was uploaded on 15th February 2018.
104 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 23, 2015
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James Philip
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James Philip was born in Kingsbury in London and grew up in that long-lost age when as a four-year old he was among the last generation of young boys in England whose father could take him to stand on a nearby railway bridge, at Wealdstone so that he could peer over the smoke blackened parapet as real steam locomotives chugged beneath.
James Philip was born in Kingsbury in London and grew up in that long-lost age when as a four-year old he was among the last generation of young boys in England whose father could take him to stand on a nearby railway bridge, at Wealdstone so that he could peer over the smoke blackened parapet as real steam locomotives chugged beneath.
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November 5, 2020
Enjoyable read
This is a very enjoyable read for anyone interested in war time Britain or aviation. While not going into it in depth it is a good snap shot of life in 1943.
This is a very enjoyable read for anyone interested in war time Britain or aviation. While not going into it in depth it is a good snap shot of life in 1943.
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