Coward on the Beach

Download or read book Coward on the Beach written by James Delingpole and published by Bloomsbury Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in a series about reluctant hero Dick Coward, an ordinary chap who keeps finding himself in extraordinary circumstances. World War II's answer to Flashman - only much more honourable - he finds himself caught up in all the war's major events. In the Battle of Britain, he flies Spitfires - having earlier crash landed at Dunkirk, of course - before being booted out of the RAF in time to see action in the Western Desert, be captured at Crete and be posted as a military advisor at Stalingrad (where he ends up fighting for his life on both sides), from whence to D-Day, Arnheim, the Battle of the Bulge and the crossing of the Rhine. Keeping him alive through all this is Coward's Jeeves-like, cynical, hard bitten batman (and head groom to his estate) Price, for whom noblesse oblige died long ago at Passchendaele. Coward's goal- to amass sufficient military glory to appease his difficult father. Otherwise the family estate will end up in the hands of his ghastly, undeserving brother, James.