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A Longer War
Author: Cyclist Organizational: Title Page Audience Rating: Mature Subjects (pg15) A Longer War by Cyclist “What’s this place, then?” Rodney tried to soften his words, but it was clearly hard for him as well. “Operation Goodwood, young man. See those f ...
Steph C - 2016/12/30 - 1:16pm
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A Longer War 1
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 1 We weren’t there in the first wave, thank god. We had sat offshore in an LCT for hours while things the size of an Austin 7 flew over our heads to burst inland, and I ...
Steph C - 2014/06/08 - 4:42pm - 7 comments
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A Longer War 10
roads in this little corner of Hell, and we shall use them. We already have flying columns en route for ...
Steph C - 2014/09/04 - 2:30am - 11 comments
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A Longer War 11
Cyclist CAUTION: Violence Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 11 Bob was away for a few hours the next morning, and when he came back he was dragging a kitbag. “Right, lads. There’s a lot been going on, so this is going to be a busy ...
Steph C - 2014/08/06 - 12:29pm - 14 comments
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A Longer War 12
Cyclist CAUTION: Violence Mature Subjects (pg15) College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 12 Life settled down after that. It was strange to find ourselves with a proper billet; stranger still to find that we had a servant, in the form of an unsmili ...
Steph C - 2014/09/04 - 9:38am - 11 comments
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A Longer War 13
Cyclist CAUTION: Violence Mature Subjects (pg15) College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 13 I did some reading after that, after they dragged him screaming into their private little world, and years later I found out more. Hoess was an odd mix, one ...
Steph C - 2014/08/18 - 1:51pm - 13 comments
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A Longer War 14
Cyclist CAUTION: Suicide Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 14 There was a court of inquiry in Colchester, a sort of inquest affair. They took each of us in turn, each of his mates, and gave us everything but the rubber truncheon. I assume ...
Steph C - 2014/09/07 - 9:42am - 6 comments
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A Longer War 15
Cyclist CAUTION: Suicide CAUTION: Violence Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 15 I opened the back door and stepped back two years. The smell was the same, but the colours seemed just a little more worn than I remembered. “Mam! I’m home!” ...
Steph C - 2014/09/07 - 10:16am - 7 comments
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A Longer War 16
Cyclist CAUTION: Suicide CAUTION: Violence Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) PART TWO CHAPTER 16 “So, ladies and gentlemen, now that I have thoroughly ruined Ernie’s character, as is traditional, can we now do the other traditional thing and rais ...
Steph C - 2014/09/11 - 11:22am - 17 comments
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A Longer War 17
Cyclist CAUTION: Suicide Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 17 We were winding down a little bit as the little band Ernie’s dad had hired played some slower tunes, including a very slow waltz that got a lot of couples onto their feet and e ...
Steph C - 2014/09/17 - 12:37pm - 7 comments
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A Longer War 18
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction College / Twenties CAUTION Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 18 The Ouse was low and slow, murmuring past the moorings as I laid out my tools. Somewhere overhead a lark was singing away, and there was a splash near the far ...
Steph C - 2015/05/11 - 5:24pm - 5 comments
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A Longer War 19
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 19 I gave my hair a last quick comb, and buffed up the toe caps of my shoes on the backs of my trousers. Why had I bought flowers? They weren’t good ones, but they weren’t roses. Mam had said that ...
Steph C - 2014/10/21 - 12:40pm - 8 comments
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A Longer War 2
Cyclist CAUTION: Violence Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 2 “Turret left! Range five hundred! Got him, Ginge?” “Aye…” The Cromwell rocked as the breech flew back. “Nice one, lad. You’ve got the eye for this, a ...
Steph C - 2014/07/12 - 12:58pm - 6 comments
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A Longer War 20
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 20 That night was the start of so much more than a ride in the back of a bread van. Once Tricia and I had broken the ice, it seemed as if her personality had expanded. The films we went to see in ...
Steph C - 2014/10/28 - 2:26pm - 8 comments
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A Longer War 21
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 21 I was in the bottom of some new-style cabin cruiser, trying to see if it was the seal around the shaft that was leaking or whether it was a warped hull, and I heard him call my name. “Hang on, ...
Steph C - 2014/11/04 - 5:54am - 10 comments
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A Longer War 22
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 22 “Come in, do! George, is there a problem?” “Sort of, sir. Chap here, Gerald, he’s come all the way down to ask a favour of you” “Beattie, may we please have some tea. Gentlemen, tea?” He led th ...
Steph C - 2014/11/22 - 1:54am - 7 comments
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A Longer War 23
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 23 That stunned me, but it also confirmed the realisation that I had slowly been coming to: I just didn’t see things, didn’t spot what was obvious to others. Rodney had said it, asking if I didn’t ...
Steph C - 2014/12/04 - 5:49pm - 10 comments
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A Longer War 24
a spot of luncheon en route?” Matthew roared, and it was so much more natural than his manner had been in ...
Steph C - 2014/12/16 - 12:11pm - 9 comments
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A Longer War 25
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Serial Chapter Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 25 Ernie wasn’t too full of gossip that night, and we spent it going over old, old tales of our times in Normandy and further on. The toast, in essence, was ‘absent friends’, and se ...
Steph C - 2016/10/04 - 4:21am - 9 comments
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A Longer War 26
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 26 “LEFF RAH LEFF RAH LEFF RAH HALT! CAP—OFF!” With a clash of stamping boots Bob was marched in, halted and then sat with his advocate, our little accountant Captain Flanagan. He in turn gave Bob ...
Steph C - 2015/03/22 - 7:13pm - 10 comments