Our Price: AUD$24.95 (USD$)* ISBN: 978-1-921456-34-3 Subject: Fiction/War and Military/Short Stories Publication Date: June 2010

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Synopsis
Brylcream Easy is a collection of ten stories, based on fact, about the ordinary men who took arms to become part of Bomber Command.

Powerful, incisive and deeply moving at times, Donald Roberts has captured something of the humour, pathos, futility and terrible cost of war.

These stories bring to life men of some seventy years ago, who diced with life in the night skies over Germany, fighting for our freedom.

Not just another war book, but rather an intensely personal experience of what it was like to be there.

About The Author
Donald H. Roberts (1921-2004) was a rear-gunner attached to Bomber Command during World War II, serving in Wellingtons and Lancasters.

He flew in forty-five major operations over Germany, including twenty-five with 460 Squadron, RAAF.

Donald Roberts was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1945.

From The Book
I looked at the khaki figure in front of me. I'm pretty handy with my fists. A swift left jab to the nose and a right to the jaw would have settled it there and then - if there had only been him. Or him and a mate. But there were five.

The blowzy-looking barmaid looked on disinterestedly, a cigarette drooping from her lips, a glass of clear liquid, probably gin, in her hand. Her crimson fingernails looked like tropical beetles; her fingers like the claws of a chicken. Why had I come into such a place?

I thought about standing up to leave. The door was ten feet away. My tormentor would have to come around the table to stop me. His friends had twenty feet to travel. And they were drunk. I figured the chances of my making the door and clearing the pub were pretty good.