At the start of the war in 1939 James Bevan is a junior officer approaching middle-age, attached to a small anti-aircraft unit on the south coast. Abandoned by his wife, the soldiers he command are his family: Bairnsfather, whose sexual encounters with his girl friend Muriel take place in an air-raid shelter; Cartwright, trying to keep two women on his gunner's pay of a shilling a day; Hignet, cosily educating himself in the orderly room. It is a rude awakening when they are called upon for the real war. Hugely absorbing, rich and rewarding, Other Times brims with history and experience, love, sorrow and humour.
| ISBN: | 9780099415237 |
| Publication date: | 3rd August 2000 |
| Author: | Leslie Thomas |
| Publisher: | Arrow Books Ltd an imprint of Cornerstone |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 512 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |