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Leslie Thomas, OBE (22 March 1931 – 6 May 2014) was a Welsh author best known for his comic novel The Virgin Soldiers. [1] Early life.
Description / Buy at Amazon. Almost Heaven. (2010) Description / Buy at Amazon. My World of Islands. (2011) Description / Buy at Amazon. Leslie Thomas is a literature and fiction author that was born in Newport in the United Kingdom. He was born to a wandering Welsh sailor from Newport Gwent.
May 20, 2014 · Leslie John Thomas was born on March 22, 1931, in Newport, Wales. In his first book, “This Time Next Week: The Autobiography of a Happy Orphan” (1964), he wrote that his father, a merchant ...
Leslie Thomas has 87 books on Goodreads with 10486 ratings. Leslie Thomas’s most popular book is The Virgin Soldiers.
Orange Wednesday (1967) The Virgin Soldiers is a 1966 comic novel by Leslie Thomas, inspired by his own experiences of National Service in the British Army. [1] It was Thomas' debut novel; he had previously published an autobiography. The Virgin Soldiers sold millions of copies during the author´s lifetime. [2]
edit data. 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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