The train chugs its way through the English countryside, stopping every ten minutes at and often between, each little station along the way. This here’s worse than a sardine can and I don’t know where the hell we’re going.’ ‘Bassingbourn, the 91st’ I remind him. ‘Isn’t that where they sent ol’ Clark Gable?’ He squints his eyes, puckers his mouth and in a real bad imitation of Gable says, ‘Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn…’ ‘Well at least it ain’t the Bloody Hundredth.
A Real Good War by Sam Halpert, who’s fiercely authentic, autobiographical novel (first published in 1997 by Cassell Military Paperbacks) was a remarkable fiction debut at the age of 77. Born Brooklyn in 1920, after enlistment Sam gave up his job as an apprentice typesetter in Buffalo and was trained as a navigator on the B-17.
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