The Cruise of the Breadwinner
by H.E. Bates
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The horror and the humanity of war come too close, when a little fishing boat, the Breadwinner, rescues a pilot shot down in the Channel during a dogfight. The only trouble is, the pilot is German. As the young fisherman tends his wounds, he comes to realize that war is not exciting, and the enemy before him is just a young boy like himself - indistinguishable from the once glamorous English pilot who soon also crashes near the boat.Tags
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This novella tells of the little fishing boat 'The Breadwinner',which during one of it's trips during the middle phase of WW2, picks up firstly a British Spitfire pilot and later the German pilot of a Messerschmitt. Both of them shot down. It is the interplay of feelings and the sometimes surprising reactions of the flyers and of the crew members that make this story such a fine one.
H.E.Bates is I feel,the finest exponent of the novella,or short novel,which is a very difficult thing to write satisfactorily .
H.E.Bates is I feel,the finest exponent of the novella,or short novel,which is a very difficult thing to write satisfactorily .
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- Original publication date
- 1946
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 823.912 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1901-1945
- LCC
- PZ3 .B3145 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
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