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Freefall

Robert Radcliffe author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:6th Sep '18

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From a million-copy bestselling author comes the second instalment in the Airborne trilogy centered on the WW2 parachute regiment.

Second instalment in the Airborne trilogy centred on the WW2 parachute regiment. Paratrooper Theo Trickey's war record is extraordinary - but what was Rommel's interest in the soldier?

'A born storyteller' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH . Dreadfully injured in the Arnhem landings, paratrooper Theo Trickey was never expected to survive. Medical Officer Captain Daniel Garland pulled Trickey's comatose body from a pile of corpses, keeping him alive as they were shipped to a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. As Garland discovers, Trickey has had a remarkable war. Boy soldier, commando, paratrooper, intelligence officer – fighting from northern France to the African desert. But that's not all. What was Trickey's connection with Germany's greatest general, the recently deceased Erwin Rommel? Why have the Desert Fox's loyalest officers tracked him down and just what is it that they want Garland to do? Freefall is the second part of Radcliffe's Airborne trilogy which tells the extraordinary story of a young soldier, a new regiment and how, together, they changed the course of a war. 'A must-read: deft, vivid, painfully well-observed' Graham Hurley, author of Finisterre.

Radcliffe writes with knowledge and skill... [A] fascinating and convincing novel' * The Times *
Fantastic -- Kate Atkinson
Enthralling * Daily Mail *
A born storyteller * Sunday Telegraph *
The mixture of fiction and fact provides a good look at real events... Well written and readable' * Soldier Magazine *
A rattlingly good yarn, the literary version of a Hollywood blockbuster * New Statesman *

ISBN: 9781784973889

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384 pages