Colin MacInnes was a sergeant in a Field Security detachment in the Second World War. In this imaginative record of actual experiences he describes the progress of his detachment through Holland, Germany and Belgium in a rapid succession of incidents, full of humanity, light-heartedness and wit.
But it is a great deal more than just a fascinating account of the war; written in the 1950s, it was a sufficient distance away for the war experience to have been digested, yet close enough for it to be fresh. Running through the seemingly gentle stories he tells are undercurrents of emotion which are moving, disturbing and deeply poignant.
- ISBN10 0586038558
- ISBN13 9780586038550
- Publish Date 13 June 1974
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 May 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint HarperCollins Distribution Services
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English