Time Passes
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Time Passes
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Verteld door:
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Jerry Short
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Van:
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Gordon Robert Pryor
The book gives details of the author's birth and family and his experience in the war in London and Hertfordshire, where he had six Italian prisoners of war working for him on the estate when he was eight. Providing for his mother and sister. Catching a German paratrooper in one of his traps.
He details his National Service and posting to Cyprus. The mission he was sent on included meetings with important people like Winston Churchill, Montgomery and Her Majesty the Queen.
His subsequent personal details and experiences of sailing on his yacht, playing in the Islands Tennis tournament, won by Jaroslav Drobny, and meeting with Donald Peers and Nana Misquori, Len Hutton and Freddie Truman. In Cyprus. The gallant saving of a lady from being shot by a rival.
He also details his return to England and his demob and then an unexpected inheritance of a large dilapidated estate and a great deal of money, and commencing studies in Oxford, where he had to struggle for a degree, but he becomes involved in spying and intrigue, meeting Kim Philby and Mr Enoch Powell.
A fascinating listen.
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