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The Magic Army
The Magic Army
Oct 30, 2024 3:24 AM

Author:Leslie Thomas

The Magic Army

The war, they said, would be over by Christmas. That was in 1939, and it is now January 1944. An exhausted Britain faces another year of conflict.

Meanwhile, small coastal villages in Devon are facing an invasion from an army just as foreign as that of the Germans. The Americans are smart, well-fed and well-equipped, and they have swept the bewildered citizens of South Devon from their homes in deadly earnest rehearsal for D-Day.

As the beaches echo to the sound of bullets and the local church to the strains of Glenn Miller, Americans and English are thrown together with sometimes hilarious, sometimes painful and puzzling results.

Reviews

It's bawdy, funny, sad and sometimes sorry and it brought those times vividly back

—— Daily Mail

The cast of characters is as various, corrupt, nasty and gnarled as the best of Dickens, described with similar scope and loving attention

—— Mail on Sunday

Highly readable, funny and colourful.

—— TLS

Splendid ... mystery, pace and wit

—— Ellis Peters

Lindsey Davis doesn't merely make history come alive - she turns it into spanking entertainment, and wraps it around an intriguing mystery. She is incapable of writing a dull sentence

—— Peter Lovesey

Uniquely entertaining

—— Time Out

If only all bestsellers were this satisfying

—— Time Out

It's something the Americans always used to do slightly better, the escaped maniac who's coming after people, and eventually catching up with them, and this one'sno slouch. Heart-stoppingly entertaining.

—— Books Monthly

Your heart will be pounding long after you've turned the final page

—— LISA GARDNER
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