Peacetime
by Robert Edric | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0552772062 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0552772062 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Sterile of Burnley, Lancashire United Kingdom on 3/11/2008
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
amazon Review:
Peacetime’s cover synopsis plot is attractive. Post war 1946, Fenland coast, a small insular community adjusting to its once strategic position as an airbase for German bombing raids and North Sea ship lane protection gun platforms. The war is over, the personnel have gone home and all that is left is the demolition of the airfield and the infrastructure of homeland defence, lead by an enigmatic engineer outsider called Mercer. Into the mix throw a German prisoner of war unable and unwilling to return home, working on the airfield demolition, and a Jewish concentration camp survivor, living rough and meditating on the loss of his entire family to the Nazi regime. Not surprisingly all three struggle to integrate into the community who themselves are torn apart by family struggles and adjusting to the new world
Peacetime’s cover synopsis plot is attractive. Post war 1946, Fenland coast, a small insular community adjusting to its once strategic position as an airbase for German bombing raids and North Sea ship lane protection gun platforms. The war is over, the personnel have gone home and all that is left is the demolition of the airfield and the infrastructure of homeland defence, lead by an enigmatic engineer outsider called Mercer. Into the mix throw a German prisoner of war unable and unwilling to return home, working on the airfield demolition, and a Jewish concentration camp survivor, living rough and meditating on the loss of his entire family to the Nazi regime. Not surprisingly all three struggle to integrate into the community who themselves are torn apart by family struggles and adjusting to the new world
Journal Entry 2 by Sterile at Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (9/30/2008 UTC) at Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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Added to the fiction mix bookbox 30th September 2008
Added to the fiction mix bookbox 30th September 2008
Selected from raeliz64's mixed fiction bookbox.
Journal Entry 4 by 
brunton11
at Salford, Greater Manchester United Kingdom on Saturday, September 10, 2011
brunton11 at Salford, Greater Manchester United Kingdom on Saturday, September 10, 2011
Taking this book on holiday - Intend to wild release it in warmer climes...
Journal Entry 5 by brunton11 at Magnolia Resort Hotel in Katelios - Κατελειός, Kefalonia Greece on Monday, September 26, 2011
brunton11 at Magnolia Resort Hotel in Katelios - Κατελειός, Kefalonia Greece on Monday, September 26, 2011
Released 12 yrs ago (9/20/2011 UTC) at Magnolia Resort Hotel in Katelios - Κατελειός, Kefalonia Greece
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Not a book I would typically have chosen to read so I'm glad I selected it. Very readable style given the subjects of the book.
Left on the book pile at the end of the bar. May not be journalled but will be well read based on the reading habits of the other guests I saw whilst I was there! It wasn't there when we left...
Left on the book pile at the end of the bar. May not be journalled but will be well read based on the reading habits of the other guests I saw whilst I was there! It wasn't there when we left...
