Eagle Day by Robert Muchamore

Author:Robert Muchamore [Muchamore, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781444910421
Publisher: Hachette Littlehampton
Published: 2012-03-01T06:00:00+00:00

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10SS, or Schutzstaffel – the elite military division of the Nazi party. SS personnel were selected on grounds of racial purity and fanatical devotion to Hitler.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Paul got on OK with PT and Marc, but Dumont had a big mouth and liked throwing his weight around so Paul tried to avoid him. Today was an exception, because he wanted Marc to tell him what the leaflet said. He found the three older lads easily enough, just a few hundred metres from the house, checking rabbit traps they’d set the day before.

The leaflet had been prepared by the British Propaganda Ministry with the aim of demoralising German troops and was entitled: A Guide to the Invasion of Britain. The first section was an English phrasebook containing handy phrases such as ‘Help me, I’m drowning,’ and ‘Please don’t bayonet me again, I wish to surrender.’

There was also a section of jokes and Marc sat in the grass and read one aloud, pausing occasionally to translate the words.

‘Hitler recently set up a meeting with the Chief Rabbi of Berlin. He was desperate to cross the English Channel and threatened to demolish every synagogue in the city unless the rabbi told him the secret of how Moses parted the Red Sea. The rabbi replied that Moses’ magic wand was currently on display at the British Museum.’

Paul and PT laughed, but Dumont looked baffled. ‘I don’t get it.’

Marc tutted. ‘Hitler wants the wand,’ he explained. ‘But it’s in the British Museum, in London, where he can’t get it.’

Dumont scratched his head. ‘But if the British have this wand, why don’t use it?’they

‘For god’s sake,’ PT said, as he thumped on the grass in distress. ‘Dumont, it’s a joke.’

‘Sometimes I think he’s putting it on,’ Marc said, grinning. ‘But then it turns out that he really is that thick.’

‘I’m smarter than ,’ Dumont said. ‘My mum says I’m practical, rather than being good with words and numbers.’you

Paul couldn’t resist teasing, ‘And your mum’s bound to be totally unbiased …’

Dumont reared up. ‘Unless you want your head mashed into the nearest cow pat, I’d suggest you shut your weedy little mouth.’

Paul stepped back, but wasn’t too worried because he figured Marc and PT would stick up for him. The tension subsided a moment later when Marc turned to the centre of the invasion guide.

‘Phwoarr!’ he spluttered. ‘Now that’s rather nice.’

PT and Dumont zoomed in on the leaflet. Paul had already seen the image of two topless girls with , written beneath it.Something for you to look at while other men are taking care of your wives and daughters back home

‘You guys are so dirty,’ Paul complained. ‘You’ll burn in hell for sure.’

‘Some things are worth going to hell for,’ PT said, smiling. ‘You said these leaflets were scattered all over the road?’

‘Are there any different ones?’ Marc asked excitedly, before Paul could answer. ‘Like, with different pictures of girls in them?’

‘Let’s go down there and find out,’ Dumont said.

The idea of Halifax bombers dropping topless

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