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Fantastic read, this book has it all pathos, longing and humour.
Eventually, when he was ready, he scratched his head, then turned to the officer and, with his face the picture of innocence, said, ‘Well look at that, rats.’
A good answer :-)
We were not able to find out at that time because two days later we were all on the move.
John Nichol and Tony Rannell – The Last Escape –
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Our boys, if they were lucky enough to get home safely, would have a good meal of bacon and egg waiting for them after de-briefing, and a good bed. Then the following evening, if they had been stood down from operations, they would be off to the pubs and cinemas of Grimsby followed by a fish and chip supper.
It was the simple things of that life such as going to the pictures (the cinema), playing darts at the local pub, watching the local football team playing in the park on a Saturday afternoon and having a slap-up breakfast on a Sunday morning when you did not have to race off to work, these were the things we had craved to be reunited with.
