A GOOD WAR

Adam Tomaszewski is a Polish airman, flying Hurricanes alongside Britishpilots as the Battle of Britain rages in the summer skies over Kent andSussex. Facing death daily and far from his friends and family, Adam findshimself drawn to a maverick Irish soldier called Gerry Cunningham.'You'reout of luck, brother,' are the first words Gerry says when they meet inthe crush of men competing for the few women at a dance in a seasidehotel, but when Gerry betrays his lover Moira, Adam's fortunes seem tohave changed. For the next four years, Adam's life and Gerry's areintertwined like good luck and bad, love and loss, life and death, theirpaths crossing at various points on Adam's perilous journey from the ruinsof Poland to the rolling English countryside, from Egypt to OccupiedFrance.A hauntingly evocative picture of wartime Britain, a twisting dramaof fighting behind enemy lines, a compelling, suspenseful love story, AGOOD WAR proves Patrick Bishop - already acclaimed as a great historian ofthe war in the air - to be a superbly gifted novelist.