David Fiddimore
Davis Fiddimore has written a series of 5 books featuring his hero Charlie Bassett, we meet him as a Sgt Wop on Lancasters, completing his first tour, then goes on to German DP camps in the aftermath of the war, followed by a spell in a civvie nick, Berlin Airlift, and concludes with him back in uniform during Suez. Highly improbable adventures ( rather like Flashman, especially with the fairer sex), but very gritty descriptions of what life was like at that time, the drinking, black market rackets, dodgy Establishment figures,but most of all the flying and military life is perfectly captured.
The books are most particularly non PC, written in the language of the times, if you are an ex Nazi or an Egyptian official these books may cause offence.
The series starts with Tuesdays Child, and concludes with the Silent War, published in paperback by Pan.
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