As we get further and further removed from the Second World War, the amount of people who have witnessed it keeps on ticking down to the point where today very few survivors actually remain.

Used books have different signs of use and might not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. Honestly - I feel sorry for the majority of men during wartime who weren’t as much of an idiot as Horace was. It was there he embarked on an incredible love affair with a German girl interpreting for his captors.The risks both Jim and Rose were taking seemed great and the description of how they fell in love seemed far fetched. It felt like the ghost author was trying too hard to sex up an already interesting yarn and ended up losing my sympathy for the protagonist, Horace (Jim) Greasley.

He never mentions even her hair color (but makes sure we know the prostitute he is with earlier has red hair), just that she had a film star body. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. It takes young men out of unemployment and creates wealth for Arms dealers, construction companies and medical and drugs corporations.Conveniently also, Rose dies in childbirth bearing their son, who also dies (after almost five years of sexual activity that did not produce a pregnancy! No entanto, e infelizmente, não consegui retirar prazer desta leitura e foram vários os pontos que me "incomodaram". Beautiful story spoilt by it being padded out by very crude descriptions which I very much doubt were the word of Horace Greasley. The man didn’t fail to take every opportunity to talk about how much the women enjoyed having sex with them. A love blossomed between them, and on more than two hundred occasions Greasley sneaked out of the camp to meet with her, successfully making his way back in on time, and often bringing some provisions for the rest of his camp-mates.

Lo que si no termina de agradarme son todos los pormenores que da el protagonista de sus encuentros amorosos, creo que no eran necesarios, están de mas, no me imagino a un hombre de 89 años contando eso para que aparezca en su libro. I completed this book as it was a book club challenge, but never have I forced myself on through a book so unwillingly. To continue along this vague path Jim later says that the cold he experienced in that camp was nothing compared to what he experienced in another camp, causing you to assume the first camp wasn’t quite the sub-zero temperatures we were lead to imagine.I prefer authors who are able to use creativity for describing things and the language of the characters without being vulgar. As much as it's stated that it's based on "true events" and it's not "exaggerated" - I still feel like this is more a work of fiction. The number of sex scenes in the book was tedious (there was A LOT considering he was a PoW) and they got very boring and very stale, very quickly. It’s hard to know if an editor even glanced at this novel or they had adjectival dyslexia, considering the constant tedium, clunky sentences, and repetitive conversations.