![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While they changed into tennis clothes, ambling in a relaxed way around their bedroom, it always amazed me that they were so unconcerned by the coming war and unaware that it might break out just as my father served his first ball. As soon as lunch was over I would wait for my mother and father to leave for the country club. Ballard Copyright © 1991 CONTENTS PART I A SEASON FOR ASSASSINS Bloody Saturday, 3 Escape Attempts, 25 The Japanese Soldiers, 44 PART II THE CRAZE YEARS The Queen of the Night, 71 The NATO Boys, 93 Magic World, 115 The Island, 132 The Kindness of Women, 155 Craze People, 174 The Kingdom of Light, 192 The Exhibition, 208 In the Camera Lens, 230 The Casualty Station, 253 PART III AFTER THE WAR Into the Daylight, 275 The Final Programme, 293 The Impossible Palace, 308 Dream's Ransom, 326 Part 1 A Season for Assassins 1 BLOODY SATURDAY Every afternoon in Shanghai during the summer of 1937 I rode down to the Bund to see if the war had begun. The Kindness of Women The Kindness of Women J. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |