The Bamboo Shield (Freddie’s War)

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"Bi-sexual conscientious objector to be hanged." A fictional contemporary literary novel based on actual and inspired events tells the story of Freddie Pargeter a would be World War Two conscientious objector. Freddie fails to convince the conscientious objection tribunal and the court appeal of his stance for peace so goes on the run, after receiving his call-up parers, so breaking the law. He encounters many characters during his every-changing errant flight. Lonely house wives, land army girls and a transitory, but an unforgettable, encounter with a handsome male university student. After starting a business with others, he, under pressure from his business partners gives himself up to the police and is sentenced to prison. Later released from prison he is erroneously accused of murder and sentenced, by a very prejudiced jury, to hang.