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| OGDEN, JOHN On Fire. A Novel of the 1950s . 2007, 312pp. fine new hardback in fine dust jacket 1846241553 ? Miles Player is a young army officer serving in Hong Kong in the early 1950s. When his regiment is called to the Korean War he finds his real military education starts. The polo and partying of colonial high life and the arms of his beloved Kitty are left behind. Nothing could be more real than his new life with his soldiers and the dramas and feelings they share. As Miles and his men face the harsh reality of battle we witness, through his eyes, acts of friendship and enmity, ambition and frailty, courage and cowardice, and love and betrayal. We also see the caprice of fortune. Yet there are moments of hilarity and periods of great fun. The intensity of life in the front line - makeshift living conditions, constant shelling and ever-present fear - casts Miles' earlier days into sharp relief. And, as he comes face to face with the impact of the war and his times, he also senses that Britain's power and prestige are dwindling. volume 2 just published 12 June 2009. (ISBN: 9781846241550) . GBP 16.50 [Appr.: EURO 19.75 US$ 25.76 | JP¥ 2244] -- Thornton's Bookshop. Book number: F0628 Click here to view more of our catalogue: Fiction Keywords: Fiction War Oorlog Krieg Guerre Korea 9781846241550 |  Order this book | ||
| OGDEN, JOHN Silken Dalliance Faringdon, Thorntons. 2009. Buckram with dust jacket. Bound.Hardback. Miles Player the narrator is a young Englishman growing up in the British army of the 1950s, which in many ways were closer to the 1930s than 1960s. After nearly two years fighting in the Korean War (narrated in On Fire the first of the trilogy A Military Education) Miles and his regiment The Prince Regent's Light Infantry, find themselves on the frontier of the Cold War in West Germany. Battle-worn and oblivious to the outside world the officers set out to pursue a life of pleasure, comfort and fun. Their lives become complicated by a new commanding officer who turns out to be a paranoic martinet, the arrival of a clever and louche young officer, and - for Miles - a girl he still loves who is now married to a brother officer. We watch their lives unfold, sometimes hilariously and sometimes tragically, in the closed society of a regiment undermined by amorality and the abuse of power. ? The Author. John Ogden was first a professional soldier who helped give away the British Empire and then an advertising man who helped build and sustain commercial empires. In 1952 he was commissioned into The King's Shropshire Light Infantry, with whom he served in various parts of the world until he resigned his commission in 1964. He then joined J. Walter Thompson in London, moving, in the 1980s, to Ogilvy & Mather. He now lives in Oxfordshire. / Andrew Roberts writes: 'Ogden's ear for the dialogue of all ranks of the British Army protecting West Germany in the 1950s is at perfect pitch. The psychological insight into the motivation of his characters is equally superb. Just as its predecessor On Fire examined the concepts of comradeship and courage, so Silken Dalliance inquires perceptively into the nature of leadership. The A Military Education trilogy is shaping up well to become one of the great Cold War novel sequences.' / Praise for On Fire 'I enjoyed On Fire enormously. It presents a wonderfully vivid picture of the experience of Korea.' Sir Max Hastings 'An excellent read and a haunting evocation of a long vanished era.' Professor Gary Sheffield 'It is years since I enjoyed a novel quite so much and I recommend it unreservedly to readers.' The Tablet, Novel of the Week / 'A compulsively readable story, the Forgotten War comes vividly alive.' Country Life 2009, 302 pages, hardback in dust jacket PUBLISHED ON 12 JUNE 2009 BY THORNTON'S. As New/As New. GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.5 US$ 28.1 | JP¥ 2448] -- Thornton's Bookshop. Book number: F1207 Click here to view more of our catalogue: Military Studies | Order this book | ||
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