The First Casualty
Lieferzeit: Bezug 3-5 I
ISBN-13:
9780552771306
Veröffentl:
2006
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.05.2006
Seiten:
448
Autor:
Ben Elton
Gewicht:
299 g
Format:
199x127x29 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
Ben Elton¿s multi-award winning career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past thirty-five years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comic, he was co-writer of TV hits The Young Ones and Blackadder and sole creator of The Thin Blue Line and Upstart Crow. He has written fifteen major bestsellers, including Stark, Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous, High Society, Two Brothers and Time and Time Again, three West End plays and three musicals, including global phenomenon We Will Rock You. He has written and directed two feature films, Maybe Baby and Three Summers.
Flanders, June 1917, a British officer is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. This novel presents a historical drama, and explores some fundamental questions such as: What is murder? What is justice in the face of daily slaughter?