The Big City is the third book of the Until the Night series and is set in November 1943.
The Until the Night Series is about Bomber Command in the winter of 1943-44 and follows the experience of Adam Chantrey, a 25-year old veteran of the bombing war sent to Ansham Wolds in Lincolnshire to rebuild a shattered Lancaster squadron.
Exhausted and tormented by his own demons he discovers, amidst the chaos of war and loss, love and an unlikely inner peace up on the High Wold of Lincolnshire while all around him the world is enveloped in madness.
It was in November 1943 that Bomber Command commenced a campaign to level Berlin from end to end; at stake was the tantalizing prospect of knocking Germany out of the war by the spring of 1944. The fabled ‘main aim’ of the bomber war briefly beckoned, and like a siren’s call it began to lure the Main Force to its doom.
But all that was in an unknown and an unknowable future; in the beginning hope died hard. For Adam Chantrey this is just the latest battle and he is not alone in having to come to terms with the new realities of a cruel world.
PLEASE BE AWARE – THIS IS BOOK IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN AN OMNIBUS AMAZON KINDLE EDITION TITLED ‘UNTIL THE NIGHT’, A REVISED SECOND EDITION OF A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK OF THE SAME NAME.
This (SECOND) edition respects the characterisation and narrative of the first edition but has been re-edited and re-presented in a modified format designed to be more user friendly to Kindle and other e-book publishing platforms.
The ‘Until the Night Series’ is:-
Book 1: Main Force Country – September 1943 Book 2: The Road to Berlin – October 1943 Book 3: The Big City – November 1943 Book 4: When Winter Comes – December 1943 Book 5: After Midnight – January 1944
All five books of the ‘Until the Night Series’ are available free to subscribers to Kindle Unlimited.
The reproofed and reformatted version of The Big City was uploaded on 15th February 2018.
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