WARTIME ADVENTURES: CAPTAIN JOHNS' LATEST
Six thrilling chapters of wartime adventure on land, sea and air, oi diverse type and character comes from the pen of Captain W. E. Johns in his latest youth thriller, “Comrades in Arms.” It is headed, of course, by the inimitable triology, “Thunder Over Germany,” featuring Biggies, Warrals of the W.A.A.F. in “On the Home Front,” and “Gimlet,” King of the Commandoes in “Oriental Assignment.” They are three stories of so different a type of to excite the boyhood emotions of the most case-hard-ened type.. As if this is not enough, Captain Johns incorporates three more thrillers, “Chance of a Lifetime,” a story of U-boat warfare, “A Night Out,” a story of a sabotage raid, and “A Routine Job,” an epic of the Commandoes which maintain this high standard as a writer of youth fiction. (Published by Hoddcr and Stoughton).
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22757, 1 October 1948, Page 3
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145WARTIME ADVENTURES: CAPTAIN JOHNS' LATEST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22757, 1 October 1948, Page 3
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