Enemy Coast Ahead

Ironically, most of ECA is Gibson’s own work except for the part which actually describes the Raid – which first appeared in Atlantic Monthly magazine and is believed to have been ghost-written by Roald Dahl.

It is an ok book but was ghost written (no pun intended) and Gibson had little to do with it except for writing notes for required parts i remember reading once.

The thing i could never understand was why did the book get edited by the very goverment who wanted it written in the first place?

curlyboy

are you sure about that? The writing ties up with what I have been told about him, having a relative who met him a month before he died.

Have to say that I found the ‘uncut’ version very disappointing – it isn’t really the original, uncensored version which would have really caused some controversy. Richard Morris had access to that manuscript for his Gibson biography which I’d recommend to anyone interested in the story behind the writing and production of ‘ECA’.

It is an ok book but was ghost written (no pun intended) and Gibson had little to do with it except for writing notes for required parts i remember reading once.

The thing i could never understand was why did the book get edited by the very goverment who wanted it written in the first place?

curlyboy

I tried it years ago and never finished it, I thought it was boring.
I know blasphemy, but there you are…..:o

Cees

Read it many years ago, great read.
Reach for the sky(Bader) and Fight for your life(Stanford-TucK) are also worth reading.

Pierre Closterman’s “The Big Show” is also a cracking read (the full version anyway):):)

Enemy Coast Ahead

I am reading it now in the Dutch (first) edition. Unfortunatly, the paper is turned all brown, and is so detoriated it breaks into small pieces.

I agree one of the best WWII stories
🙂
To complement my 1956 Pan edition I managed to buy a new version from Amazon. I have also acquired modern copies of “The Dambusters”, “Escape or die”, and “The Great Escape”. What I would really like is a 1958 Penguin version of Pierre Closterman’s “The Big Show”

cracking read:):):)

I am reading it now in the Dutch (first) edition. Unfortunatly, the paper is turned all brown, and is so detoriated it breaks into small pieces. BW Roger