Against the Day, Michael Cronin, Oxford University Press, 2003, 0192752677, 9780192752673, . This is the story of two boys who are living in England under the occupation of the Third Reich. They must learn to live with their new neighbours - the German gestapo - but become drawn into the secret world of the Resistance. All over Britain people are quietly preparing, waiting for the day when a signal will come - and when that day does arrive, the boys find themselves caught up in the most dangerous time of their lives. Exciting World War II thriller showing how life could havebeen if the Nazis had invaded Britain..
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This is the story of two boys who are living in England under the occupation of the Third Reich. They must learn to live with their new neighbours - the German gestapo - but become drawn into the secret world of the Resistance. All over Britain people are quietly preparing, waiting for the day when a signal will come - and when that day does arrive, the boys find themselves caught up in the most dangerous time of their lives. Exciting World War II thriller showing how life could have been if the Nazis had invaded Britain.
While other alternate-history "Nazis in Britain" stories exist (notably SS-GB) Against the Day is from a child's point of view. Young Frank Tate's father went missing during the 1940 invasion of the UK by the Nazis and now Frank spends his time dreaming of paying the Germans back. This book is equally fascinating for adults (indeed I would actually complain that the depiction of the British children is slightly unrealistic - they never seem to be afraid). While not focusing in too much detail on the horrors of war and the Holocaust, the novel nevertheless successfully explores a defeated and subjugated British mentality, something we have not experienced. Unless you count economic defeat of course....
It is 1941 and the Nazis have just invaded Britain. Two boys, Les and Frank, find themselves caught up in the Resistance movement - at first by accident, and then because they feel it's the only thing they can do. All over the country, various unlikely people have been given something - a name, a contact, a package - `against the day' of an invasion, and now the Resistance...more It is 1941 and the Nazis have just invaded Britain. Two boys, Les and Frank, find themselves caught up in the Resistance movement - at first by accident, and then because they feel it's the only thing they can do. All over the country, various unlikely people have been given something - a name, a contact, a package - `against the day' of an invasion, and now the Resistance is in motion. On Hitler's birthday, when every town is forced to celebrate, the fight-back begins. And the boys find themselves in the middle of a dangerous game.(less)
Creating a credible alt-world is difficult... some authors, try as they might, never really manage it; some make it seem effortless. Something like this - where the specific form of altered history is so very well trodden elsewhere - is hard to make refreshing and original, but I think Cronin does a fairly good job. I really enjoyed this. Written deceptively simply, it manages a fine and consistent balance between Things We Expect In British WW2 Stories, Things We Expect In Occupation Stories an...more Creating a credible alt-world is difficult... some authors, try as they might, never really manage it; some make it seem effortless. Something like this - where the specific form of altered history is so very well trodden elsewhere - is hard to make refreshing and original, but I think Cronin does a fairly good job. I really enjoyed this. Written deceptively simply, it manages a fine and consistent balance between Things We Expect In British WW2 Stories, Things We Expect In Occupation Stories and Things We Expect in Occupied Britain Stories, with enough individual voice and charm to make the whole greater than its parts. Not new territory by any means, but a worthy exploration - and too shor by half! More than enough energy about it to make one dive straight for the next volume.(less)
Cronin is a television and stage actor, particularly remembered for his role as PE teacher 'Bullet' Baxter in the television series Grange Hill between 1979 and 1986. He also made a cameo appearance as Baxter in a 2000 edition of The Grimleys. He also appeared in Fawlty Towers as Irish cowboy builder Lurphy (whom Manuel memorably called a "hideous orangutan"). He has appeared in episodes of Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders, The Gentle Touch, The Sweeney and Bergerac. In 1990 he played Alfred Inglethorp in the Agatha Christie's Poirot film The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and played Sergei in the 2000 television adaptation of Anna Karenina. He also occasionally appears in the BBC television programme Merlin (2008), as the character Geoffrey of Monmouth. Other television work includes: The Sweeney, Marie Curie, Chinese Puzzle, Midnight at the Starlight, Invasion, Tiny Revolutions, The Gentle Touch, Glorious Day, Bergerac, The Bill, Wycliffe, Tom Jones, Shakespeare Shorts, Our Mutual Friend, Goodnight Mr Tom, and The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Michael Cronin has written three children's novels, published by Oxford University Press. His first novel, Against the Day, was short listed for the 1999 Angus Book Award. The story is set after the end of Second World War in an England that has fallen under Nazi occupation. It follows the adventures of two boys who become dangerously involved in a secret resistance movement. A sequel, Through the Night, was published in 2003. A third book in the series, In the Morning, was published in 2005.
Against The Day and Through The Night are a pair of young adult AH books set in an alternate 1940s where Britain is under German occupation. I got the first one out of our local library on spec., but it was good enough that I borrowed the second one too. There is also a third book in the series, In The Morning, but I haven't read that.
From an AH point of view, details of the PoD and AH developments since then are sketchy to say the least. The implication from the books is that the Dunkirk evacuation either didn't happen or went horribly wrong, leaving the BEF prisoners of the Germans. It's also entirely possible that the Battle of Britain was lost. All of which led to a sucessful Sealion, with the Nazis landing along the South Coast, tank battles in the Midlands and various other badness until Britain surrendered. All of this happens very much off stage, however. The stories take place in a small village where very little has changed since the occupation ... apart from the fact that everything has.
It is 1940. The Nazis have invaded, and now Britain is now part of the Third Reich. All over the country, German military authorities are taking control, led by the brutal Gestapo. But slowly, surely, a resistance is building throughout the land. A secret network of people are plotting tooverthrow the Nazis and win back their freedom, at any cost. Frank and Les, two schoolboys, never meant to get involved-but find themselves part of a dangerous undercover operation that can only end in bloodshed...This exciting thriller is now reissued in a smaller format mass-market paperback.
Frank Tate, the main character, is separated from his father on the night of Sept. 7/8, 1940, when the Germans begin their successful invasion Great Britain. Experiencing the initial stages of the invasion first-hand, he is forced to flee the coastal town in which he lives. He comes to live in a town in rural England where he and his friend Les imagine adventures against the occupying German troops. All the while, Frank is seeking word about his father. Is his father alive? Has his father been sent a slave laborer to the Continent? Or is he free somewhere in Britain? Then serious events begin to happen.... ( )
"In the Orphic story of the world’s beginning, Night preceded the creation of the Universe, she was the daughter of Chaos, the Greeks called her Εϕξ, and the old Thracians worshipped her as a deity. For a postulant in this order, Night is one’s betrothed, one’s beloved, one seeks to become not a bride at all really, but a kind of sacrifice, an offering, to Night.― p. 959 The bookends of the word "wrath" around "against the day" make this particularly suggestive of judgement day or the day of wrath. The passages around this one and around Matthew: 6:34 where Webb's "Sufficient unto the day" (p.96) appears dwell on judgement: "Judge not, that ye be not judged. 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again."
Perhaps one of the most interesting occurrences of the phrase in the Bible is in Job 38, since that whole chapter of the Bible contains many of the themes of AtD. God (speaking out of a whirlwind)is basically asking Job who does he think he is - was he there from the start, does he know all the secrets of nature? E.g.:
Specifically, Pynchon embeds "against the day" in a larger phrase, "prepare them against the day," which appears in Section 85 of the Doctrine and Covenants, Verse 3: "It is contrary to the will and commandment of God that those who receive not their inheritance by consecration, agreeable to his law, which he has given, that he may tithe his people, to prepare them against the day of vengeance and burning, should have their names enrolled with the people of God."
Other potential Doctrine and Covenants sources include Section 29, Verse 8 ("the decree hath gone forth from the Father that they shall be gathered in unto one place upon the face of this land, to prepare their hearts and be prepared in all things against the day when tribulation and desolation are sent forth upon the wicked") and Section 109, Verse 46 ("Therefore, O Lord, deliver thy people from the calamity of the wicked; enable thy servants to seal up the law, and bind up the testimony, that they may be prepared against the day of burning").
The title, Against the Day, contains references to many of the primary themes of the novel: light, opposites, mirror imagery... Travel backward through time is quite literally traveling "against the day"; the idea of such surfaces frequently in the book. The search for eternal life might also be considered a literal struggle "against the day", or the inevitable effects of living through any measured length of time.
Another great writer full of Biblical allusions, William Faulkner, used the phrase in a 1955 speech: “We speak now against the day when our Southern people who will resist to the last these inevitable changes in social relations, will, when they have been forced to accept what they at one time might have accepted with dignity and goodwill, will say, "Why didn't someone tell us this before? Tell us this in time?"
Mason nods, gazing past the little Harbor, out to Sea. None of his business where Maskelyne goes, or comes, — God let it remain so. The Stars wheel into the blackness of the broken steep Hills guarding the Mouth of the Valley. Fog begins to stir against the Day swelling near. Among the whiten'd Rock Walls of the Houses seethes a great Whisper of living Voice.
"About his Chariot numberless were pour'd / Cherub and Seraph, Potentates and Thrones, / And Virtues, winged Spirits, and Chariots wing'd, / From the Armoury of God, where stand of old / Myriads between two brazen Mountains lodg'd / Against a solemn day, harnest at hand, / Celestial Equipage ..." (vii.197-203).
"So saying, with delight he snuff'd the smell / Of mortal change on Earth. As when a flock / Of ravenous Fowl, though many a League remote, / Against the day of Battle, to a Field / Where Armies lie encampt, come flying, lur'd / With scent of living Carcasses design'd / For death, the following day, in bloody fight" (x.272-278).
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