The Falklands Engagement
A love story novella
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The Falklands Engagement
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Narrated by:
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Virtual Voice
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By:
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Tim Rees
This title uses virtual voice narration
Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
About this listen
Pre-launch review: Tim’s – the author’s – journey through the Falklands war is very well drawn and I felt it offered me a strong taste of the experiences he had - experiences which were arduous to say the least, yet littered with army humour. The love story with Elly is mainly centred on letters they shared and I will admit to reaching for the tissues at the end.
Two people separated by war and united through love.
The Falklands Engagement is a factually correct account of the author’s experience during the Falklands war, but the love story aspect is fictitious.
However, the love story has the potential of truth. Tim met ninety-two-year-old Connie in Port Stanley after the Argentinians had raised the white flag. Tim learned the wonderful old lady had been evicted from her home because the Argentinians wanted to use her house as the officers’ mess. Once Connie had her home back, she invited a couple of Welsh Guardsman to dinner as a way of thanking them for liberating the Falkland Islands, her home. Connie also invited some British nurses working at Port Stanley hospital. Tim was sat next to a nurse called Bronwen who was from Pontypridd, only a couple of miles away from Cardiff, where Tim grew up. Had they met in Wales, it’s perfectly possible they could have fallen in love …
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