EVADING THE ENEMY
EVADER, by T. D. G. Teare; Hodder and Stoughton, N.Z, price 12/6. {tT is one of the penalties perhaps of the wider literacy of our time that anybody who does anything immediately sits down and writes a book about it all. while those of us already seated stir only far enough to buy or, preferably, borrow the latest of their adventures. And if style is the art of having something to say and saying it, most of these adventurers with a story to tell are competent tradesmen, their stories coherent and readable. Denys Teare is no exception. He’s not a first-rate writer, but he doesn’t
have to be; he lets his story tell itself. He had all the usual excitement and adventure and disappointment of the shot-down airman evading the enemy in Occupied France, working, fighting and hiding with ‘the Resistance for a year, learning to speak French so well that he found it hard at first to return to his own tongue. A good soldier, I should say, capable, a planner, daring and physically
tough.
W.A.
G.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 815, 11 March 1955, Page 14
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181EVADING THE ENEMY New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 815, 11 March 1955, Page 14
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