Pathfinders, Cecil Lewis
Pathfinders, Cecil Lewis
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Pathfinders
Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics

Author: Cecil Lewis

Narrator: John Telfer

Unabridged: 11 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Headline

Published: 06/10/2021


Synopsis

A new edition of Cecil Lewis's 1944 aviation classic.

'A highly unusual war novel with several confluent narratives; moving, interesting and of great literary value.'
LOUIS de BERNIÈRES

Over the course of one night in 1942, the crew members of Wellington bomber 'P for Pathfinder' each reflect on the paths of their own lives, as they embark on a fateful mission deep into the heart of Nazi Germany.

Cecil Lewis' novel examines the life of every man in turn, rendering a moving account of each as not merely a nameless crew member, but as an individual with a life lived, 'a life precious to some, or one... these men with dreams and hopes and plans of things to come'.

This new edition of the 1944 classic includes a new introduction from an Imperial War Museums historian that puts the novel in historical context and shines a light on this vital and sometimes contested aspect of Britain's involvement in World War II.

'It's wonderful to see these books given a new lease of life [...] classic novels from the Second World War written by those who were there, experienced the fear, anguish, pain and excitement first-hand and whose writings really do shine an incredibly vivid light onto what it was like to live and fight through that terrible conflict.'
JAMES HOLLAND, Historian, author and TV presenter

(P)2021 Headline Publishing Group Limited

Reviews

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Quotes

It's wonderful to see these books given a new lease of life [...] classic novels from the Second World War written by those who were there, experienced the fear, anguish, pain and excitement first-hand and whose writings really do shine an incredibly vivid light onto what it was like to live and fight through that terrible conflict.

If poetry was the supreme literary form of the First World War then, as if in riposte, in the Second World War, the English
novel came of age. This wonderful series is an exemplary reminder of that fact. Great novels were written about the
Second World War and we should not forget them. William Boyd