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Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
Content: "For every man alive who fought with the Eighth Army during the Second World War, Come to Dust brings back memories of what it was really like. And to every woman who waited and wondered, and was never told, this personal account of tank warfare in the Western Desert offers a testament to the extraordinary courage of the husband or lover, brother or son, who took part in those battles long ago. "A young soldier's book, it is a mixture of excitement and horror, exhilaration and fear, splendour and pain, and full of that promise of literary power which has since been so abundantly fulfilled." (from the jacket of a later edition) How much fact, how much fiction? The question is moot, as can be seen from the reviews below. Background / Biography:
Reviews: "It is a very thinly fictionalised account of warfare in the Western Desert, as it is known to a tank crew. I know of no other book which gives the outsider so vivid and particularised a sense of this form of fighting." Graham Greene, Evening Standard "as good a piece of war reporting of the intimate kind as I've ever read ... If you want to remember - live it all if you weren't there, and live it again if you were - you can do it in the pages of Come to Dust." Richard Dimbleby, BBC Book Talk (from the jacket of a later edition) Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"We settled down to the desert rat existence we were beginning to know so well. A barren stretch of sand covered sparely by our lorries, and a few tanks and two scout-cars was to be our home indefinitely, and with a strange primeval instinct we scratched round and improvised and invented to make it comfortable. Our days were spent maintaining the vehicles, reorganizing tank crews, and re-equipping as best we could our vehicles and ourselves. A composite regiment was being formed by our Brigade to assist the new boys, as we called the men of the fresh brigade which had come up to relieve us. They had not bothered to send over young officers to find out 'what the form was'. This negligence was to cost them dear." p 110 Secondhand booksellers |
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