(He is in truth a bit of a misfit all round.
The dynamics of military life are also well portrayed but these are seen through the lens of Giddings’s lack of true suitability for the role. The ongoing story is illuminated by Giddings’s memories of his time on Cyprus a decade or so earlier during the Second World War. Storytown Grade 5 Lesson 21 'Interrupted Journey' Weekly PowerPoint includes Theme 5 Introduction slides, Questions of the Day, vocabulary, vocabulary questions, focus skill, comprehension strategy, genre introduction for read-aloud, main-selection, and paired selection. His empathy with and understanding of the Cypriot rebels and their families (amongst whom he finds himself in the skirmish’s aftermath before he makes his final escape) marks this out as a thoughtful exploration of an incident from the retreat from Empire even if he is later instrumental in the arrest of the chief suspect. The fighting scenes that ensue take up almost half the book and are vividly described with the individual British soldiers’ characters well delineated but in the end only the officer, Captain Giddings, survives the encounter - and that more by luck than judgement.
(He is in truth a bit of a misfit all round.A group of soldiers on a more or less routine trip in Cyprus during the “Emergency” is ambushed by EOKA members. The ongoing story is illuminated by Giddings’s memories of his time on Cyprus a decade or so earlier during the Second World War. His empathy with and understanding of the Cypriot rebels and their families (amongst whom he finds himself in the skirmish’s aftermath before he makes his final escape) marks this out as a thoughtful exploration of an incident from the retreat from Empire even if he is later instrumental in the arrest of the chief suspect. A group of soldiers on a more or less routine trip in Cyprus during the Emergency is ambushed by EOKA members. A group of soldiers on a more or less routine trip in Cyprus during the “Emergency” is ambushed by EOKA members.
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