Sunday 24 August 2014

Sowerbutt's Parachutist


By the time the body hit the roadway near the village of East Ryde in Bedfordshire with a sickening crunch, the letters and other papers secured in a calfskin pouch hanging around the dead man’s neck had burnt to ash. It was indistinguishable from the charred remnants of the overalls and the borrowed Luftwaffe uniform underneath.

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