Pulp Fiction,or minor memoirs, that emerged from WW2

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by Old Git, Feb 26, 2017.

  1. Old Git

    Old Git Harmless Curmudgeon

    For some reason I am plagued by a bit of Pulp Fiction I read as a teenager, one of those Pan imprint novels of Men and War. it was about the battle of Crete from the perspective of British trooper who got stuck on the Island after the evacuation, or the fall of Heraklion. To be honest it's so long ago now that I can no longer remember but I think the reason it has stuck in my mind is that I was half way through it, enjoying it immensely then someone half-inched me paperback so never got to know how it finished, nearly 30 years on I'm still looking for another copy of it and I can't even remember the title or the authors name! It may have been called "Of Men and Tanks", or perhaps that's another one that got away from me, (if it wasn't 'mind-improving literature' then mumsey took a dim view, so the chances of something disappearing were always quite high).

    But it strikes me that it would be good to see what lists of pulp fiction we can muster, notwithstanding the Gunbuster novels, can anyone think of anything else? Does anyone know my Cretan novel?
     
  2. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    Help the septic. What does "half-inched me paperback" translate into American English as?
     
  3. wtid45

    wtid45 Very Senior Member

    Jeff, its Cockney rhyming slang... Pinched- Half inched, So in American English....stole me paperback.
     
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  4. papiermache

    papiermache Well-Known Member

    The author might have been Richard Courtney (Dick) Beilby (1918-1989) and the paperback publisher might have been Sphere Books. Pictures of book covers on Abebooks for novels about WW2 in Crete with titles " Gunner" and "Retreat".
     
  5. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    what about this one?
    Dare to be Free (Pan Books): Amazon.co.uk: W. B. Thomas: Books

     

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