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Leslie Thomas in 1995. Leslie Thomas, OBE (22 March 1931 – 6 May 2014) was a Welsh author best known for his comic novel The Virgin Soldiers.
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May 20, 2014 · Leslie Thomas, a top-selling British author who parlayed his experience as a soldier in Malaya into a darkly comic, wildly popular novel in which young troops strive to lose their virginity...
Leslie Thomas has 87 books on Goodreads with 10460 ratings. Leslie Thomas’s most popular book is The Virgin Soldiers.
The Virgin Soldiers is a 1966 comic novel by Leslie Thomas, inspired by his own experiences of National Service in the British Army. It was Thomas' debut novel; he had previously published an autobiography. The Virgin Soldiers sold millions of copies during the author´s lifetime.
May 7, 2014 · The author Leslie Thomas, best known for his comic novel The Virgin Soldiers, has died aged 83. Thomas, born in Newport, south Wales, was brought up in a Barnardo's home from age 12, and was a...
May 6, 2014 · Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost at sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week, published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a reporter, before going on to do his national service.
May 7, 2014 · Author Leslie Thomas, famous for his national service novel The Virgin Soldiers, has died at the age of 83. The journalist-turned-novelist died surrounded by family and friends at his home close ...
Leslie Thomas. ( 1931 - 2014) Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost at sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week, published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a reporter, before going on to do his national service.
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Dec 7, 2010 · The tale of young conscript soldiers in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency of the 1950s is based on the author’s experience of National Service and it shows. Leslie Thomas is sometimes thought of as a bit of a literary lightweight but there’s some seriously good writing here.
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