The Forgotten War

by David Fiddimore

The war is over and Charlie Bassett is one of the brave young survivors. Haunted by one woman’s smile and by his wartime adventures, he finally returns back home to try to pick up the pieces of his broken life. There’s just one small problem—everyone thinks he’s dead. Arrested as a deserter, his only way out of prison is to work for a shadowy government agency monitoring the growth of Communism in post-war Europe. Special radio missions keep him busy in the air, while his all-female team, headed up by the icy Miss Miller, keeps his feet firmly on the ground. But then Charlie is forced to go undercover as a spy in a Communist group called the Rubble Rats. The government calls them the Red Menace, but Charlie finds a group of hard-working families just trying to get by—and his loyalties are torn. When he discovers that Grace Baker is one of them, Charlie must make some difficult decisions. For king and country? Or for the woman he once loved?

Genres: Historical Fiction

499 pages, Paperback

First published March 7, 2008

Reviews

[Mary Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely to catch up with Charlie again after several years. First read on the recommendation of Richard and Judy. Not really much of a story but I love spending time with Charlie such a lovely warm character!

[Louise · Rating 2 out of 5]

A certainly entertaining book from a different perspective post ww2. Positively dated now

[Huw Rhys · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very clever writer is David Fiddimore. He takes the Second World War and its aftermath and weaves a cast of interesting, original and quite distinctive characters around a series of historical events which probably happened - but not always in the ways that Fiddimore's characters experience them. This is the third in the series - I'm about to start the fourth, and can't wait for the fifth!