Summary of Frederick Forsyth's The Outsider

By IRB Media

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#1 The Battle of Britain saved England, but the Luftwaffe bombing raids on London and the southeast would not cease. Most of the evacuated children would stay far from their parents, but at least with a good chance of reunification one day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822502260

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Insights from Chapter 1

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The Battle of Britain saved England, but the Luftwaffe bombing raids on London and the southeast would not cease. Most of the evacuated children would stay far from their parents, but at least with a good chance of reunification one day.

Insights from Chapter 2

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The summer of 1944 brought two great excitements to a small boy of five in East Kent. The nightly droning of German bombers overhead had ceased as the Royal Air Force won back control of the skies. The Texan came and parked his tank on my parents’ lawn.

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I swore a little boy’s oath that one day I would be a fighter pilot, and I would fly a Spitfire. I could not foresee the years of discouragement from schools and peer groups.

Insights from Chapter 3

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I traveled with the Colin family to Lamazière Basse, a small, medieval French village. The family home was large and old, with falling plaster, a leaky roof, and many rooms. The nanny who lived there was the old family nanny, pensioned off but given a home for the rest of her days.

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The first time I saw a human corpse was in 1948, when I was 12 years old. I spent four happy summer holidays at Lamazière Basse, and when I returned from the fourth, aged 12, I could pass for French among the French.

Insights from Chapter 4

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My father was a remarkable man. He had a kindness and a humanity that were noted by everyone who knew him. He was not rich or famous, but he had a kindness and a humanity that were noted by everyone who knew him.

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The expanse of grassland was crowded with gliders in a variety of club markings, waiting their turn to be towed into the air. There were notable pilots, around whom admiring crowds were gathered. One in particular was clearly very famous and the center of attention. She was a woman, though I didn’t know who she was.

Insights from Chapter 5

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I returned to Germany in 1953, when the country was still under occupation by the NATO forces. I went to stay with a German family outside Göttingen, and I used my stiff blue passport to go to the on-site duty-free shop and buy real coffee, which was gold dust after years of drinking bitter substitutes.

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