Ormerod's Landing pdf

莱斯利·托马斯 (莱斯利·托马斯, 两个都)（1931 年 3 月 22 日至 2014 年 5 月 6 日）是威尔士作家，以其漫画小说《处女战士》而闻名。

托马斯出生于威尔士蒙茅斯郡的纽波特。他在 12 岁时成为孤儿，当时他的水手父亲在海上失踪，而他的母亲仅在几个月后死于癌症。随后，他在巴纳多博士的家中长大；这个成长的故事是他的第一本自传书“下周的这个时候”的主题。

托马斯就读于金斯顿技术学校，然后在沃尔瑟姆斯托的西南埃塞克斯技术学院学习新闻学。 1949 年，他被征召入伍，并在新加坡皇家军队服役两年。在那里，他短暂地参与了在马来亚紧急状态下针对共产主义叛乱分子的军事行动。他还开始写短文，在英文报纸上发表。

1951 年回到英国后，托马斯重新开始在伦敦北部的当地报业集团工作，他曾在国民服役之前在那里工作过，但在五年内，他就为 交换电报 通讯社（现为 电子表格）工作，并最终与伦敦晚报，先任副主编，后任记者。他一直在晚报工作，直到 1965 年才开始全职写作。

Ormerod's Landing pdf 莱斯利·托马斯

Historians of the Second World War have hitherto omitted to mention that the first British raid on German-occupied France took place within four months of Dunkirk. It happened at midnight on September 21st, 1940, the landing being made at the small fishing town of Granville, in Normandy. The landing party consisted of a detective-sergeant of the Metropolitan Police (V Division), a young French woman schoolteacher and an ugly mongrel dog named Formidable. They were considerately brought ashore by the Germans themselves.
George Ormerod was the detective sergeant in question, not the most imaginative of policemen, but, true to his name, most resolute in his investigations. (An ormer is a notably tenacious shell-fish of the English Channel.) While the war is being lost all around him, Ormerod remains obsessed with the mundane murder of a young woman in Wandsworth, even pursuing his investigations amongst the returning and bewildered troops.
How the investigation blazed a savage trail through rural Normandy and led to Nazi-occupied Paris, and how Marie- Thérèse Velin and her often ruthless Resistance allies become involved with George Ormerod are questions Leslie Thomas answers as his tale unfolds. In Ormerod's Landing, an exciting and ironic tale of Britain and France in the early years of the war, he once again creates a tender, farcical world in which his unique humour and irony flourish.