The Chase: a Novel
“On that day, he had enlisted in the air force as well. He had lied about his age to both his landlord and the RAF recruitment officer. But because his father was both a baron and a leading member of the Conservative majority, he wasn’t questioned about his age—or anything else. In fact, he was automatically given an officer’s rank of lieutenant and sent to a special officer-training program created for enlisted personnel like himself in a time when war seemed imminent and unavoidable.
The timin...g was fortuitous—three months after signing his lease and one month out of the RAF officer-training program, war on National Socialist Germany was declared, an event that happened more through sheer default and ineptitude than moral rectitude or resolution on the part of Great Britain. Because Lionel was fluent in German, and because he had done rather poorly on the tests designed to distinguish potential pilots from the masses, he was assigned to an intelligence unit. His superiors then transferred him to the ministry of information the moment that it was created, shortly after Chamberlain’s ouster and Churchill’s advent.MoreLess
The timin...g was fortuitous—three months after signing his lease and one month out of the RAF officer-training program, war on National Socialist Germany was declared, an event that happened more through sheer default and ineptitude than moral rectitude or resolution on the part of Great Britain. Because Lionel was fluent in German, and because he had done rather poorly on the tests designed to distinguish potential pilots from the masses, he was assigned to an intelligence unit. His superiors then transferred him to the ministry of information the moment that it was created, shortly after Chamberlain’s ouster and Churchill’s advent.MoreLess
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