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Title: Only Child
Author: Christopher Meyer
Narrator: David Bauckham
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-03-15
Publisher: Whole Story AudioBooks
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
In this highly personal memoir, Christopher Meyer tells the story of his father, Flight Lieutenant Reggie Meyer, an RAF pilot, who was shot down and killed over the Greek island of Ikaria.
Through his mothers diary and family papers Christopher Meyer pieces together a wartime story of love, tragedy and sacrifice.
Members Reviews:
Review of "Only Child", by Christopher Meyer
I had a hard time finding a reason for this book. It was a quick read, but characters were poorly developed. I would recommend this only for those who are deeply interested in the history of WW ll.
rowen
Very interesting and informative. I would recommend this book to those interested in history. I liked this book emensely. Well written.
Can't put this book down
I have just downloaded and started reading this book and can't put it down. It is beautifully written and very moving.
one good book that I love to read on the go
I just stored reading it n its a good book its one of my new frivet book to read now
ONE AND ONLY
This is a personal memoir with a difference, indeed with several differences. As British ambassador in Washington on 9/11 and during the run-up to the Iraq project, Sir Christopher Meyer had a higher profile than ambassadors usually have, and his lively and controversial reminiscences in DC Confidential heightened the impact. Back at home since his âretirementâ his public image has gone on strengthening through his television documentaries and his frequent appearances on the media as panellist and pundit. We have a good idea what to expect from Sir Christopher Meyer: unlike most Foreign Office Sirs, Christopher has pizzazz, and that guarantees us good reading, even when the tale is as dignified and personal as this is.
On one view, a career like this suggests a child of the gods. Before being ambassador to the USA Christopher was press secretary to the prime minister and then ambassador in Germany. Since retiring from the diplomatic service he has been chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, a position nearly as pressurised as that of Metropolitan Police Commissioner, the way things are going currently. However on the ordinary human plane the child of the gods, gliding with seeming effortlessness from one top job to another, was the only child of an RAF pilot shot down by the Luftwaffe, together with his navigator, over the Greek island of Ikaria in 1944, ten days before Christopher was born. What we have here is the story of how Christopher Meyer finally met Reggie Meyer. It is a Greek story, so the ancient Greeks are usually supposed to have a word for everything. In that case the word I would go for is âtykheâ â âChanceâ, pure blind chance.
The breakthrough came in 2009, with an unattributed piece on Wikipedia. Just one year before, Christopher had had a brush with death himself, and for a reason that to be called prosaic would demean prose â he had stumbled on the stairs on his way to the loo. What this episode did for me was to remind me of the precariousness of the hold that any of us have on life. I had had a minor injury of my own around then, from jumping off a moving Bonde car in Rio de Janeiro so as to call in at a bar it was passing. This piece of senior idiocy earned me several weeks of limping around with a pulled thigh muscle, a proportionate penance you might think; and I mentally put Christopherâs accident in the same category. Not so, as I now learn.
