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A Good Clean Fight

By: Derek Robinson
Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
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Summary

North Africa, 1942. Dust, heat, thirst, flies. For those who liked that sort of thing, it was a good clean fight: nothing to harm but the sand, the enemy and yourself. Striking hard and escaping fast, Fanny Barton’s squadron play Russian roulette, flying their clapped out Tomahawks on ground-strafing forays. On the ground, the men of Captain Lampard’s SAS patrol drive hundreds of miles behind enemy lines to plant bombs on German aircraft. This is the story of the desert war waged by the men of the RAF and SAS versus the Luftwaffe and the Afrika Korps – a war of no glamour and few heroes in a setting often more lethal than the enemy.

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Anything but a Clean Fight

What made the experience of listening to A Good Clean Fight the most enjoyable?

The atmosphere created both by the author and the narrator. The descriptive narration of the action with great detail of individual relationships add greater depth to the overall story.

What did you like best about this story?

\the politics of the three basic units in the efforts to succeed, The German Intelligence, the SAS and the Desert Air Force

What about Michael Tudor Barnes’s performance did you like?

The atmosphere he created in the various areas of the story line. His voice control and change in tempo bought the story alive.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Not such a Good Clean Fight

Any additional comments?

This is almost classic Derik Robinson, a wonderful tale of war between men and war against the desert as well as the emotions of men in battle. Truly a very good read.

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I found this rather tedious
Perhaps a personal taste thing
I kept trying it, giving up and returning in hope
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Excellent - full marks for the story and narration

Excellent - full marks for the story and the narration. I've never heard of Derek Robinson before but the plot and characterisation is wonderful, similar to Len Deighton's 'City of Gold' and 'Goodbye Mickey Mouse' Written from the viewpoint of different protagonists whose paths cross and re-cross - British, German and Italian - most of whom are barking mad ("it's the war y'know,...,"). With dialogue is in the finest tradition of British squaddie humour although inevitably the eventual winner is the desert. No spoilers from me but I hope my favourite character reappears in another Robinson novel. I loved it. Should be made into a film. Look forward to listening to more Robinson novels with the same narrator.

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Silly jingoistic cliche.

Can’t believe just how silly this is , just a load of “ a mans got to do what a mans got to do “it’s so dated you can hear John Mills trotting out every cliche from films made seventy years ago so unless you’re cringe worthiness is dead you need to give this a miss .

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