MiG23 Broke my Heart A War Novel

The year is 1988. Eighteen-year-old Thomas Green, weed smoker and would-be artist, has been plucked from his comfortable, suburban existence in apartheid South Africa and thrown onto the frontline of his country’s war against what it sees as terrorism. As a conscript in the South African Defence Force, it’s Thomas’s job to watch the hot, sandy border for signs of the mysterious ‘red menace’. There are no bars nearby, no art galleries, no cinemas and no air-conditioned shopping malls. Worst of all, there are no lithe young ladies willing to pose nude for an eager painter-in-training. What Thomas has found in plentiful supply are sand dunes, barbwire fences and landmines. He may as well have landed in hell. When a man approaches on foot from Angola, the place where the terrorists are said to come from, Thomas discovers that life can still get a whole lot worse. MiG-23 Broke my Heart is a war novel, a tale of action and adventure, a fictional road trip and—deep i...

Author: Dawson Andrew
Year of publication: 2011
Genre: Modern prose
Number of pages: 44
Reading time: 44 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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