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Appointment with Venus

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181:, contact the Provost and other friends on the island, and discover that Weiss, a cattle breeder in civilian life, is about to have the cow shipped to Germany. Nicola persuades her artist cousin, who has tried to ignore the war, to help by painting another cow with Venus' distinctive markings, and, with some narrow escapes, they succeed in taking Venus to a waiting ship for the journey back to England. 240: 314: 34: 170:, remains on the island. They petition the War Office to mount a rescue operation, and Major Valentine Morland is assigned the mission, with the assistance of the Suzerain's sister Nicola Fallaize who joined the 158:
of Armorel is occupied by a small garrison of German troops under the benign command of Hauptmann Weiss. He finds that the hereditary ruler, the Suzerain, is away in the army, leaving the Provost in charge.
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Before their mission, Morland takes Fallaise out to dinner, and after their main courses, he asks the waiter for "coffee and
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broadcast a 4-part dramatisation by Michael Bartlett featuring Karen Archer and
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A 1993 audio cassette version of the novel was produced by Soundings Ltd (
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in 1962. The story is based on a real incident of the evacuation of
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in 1951, leading to a British film adaptation the same year and
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The island of Armorel appears to be a fictionalised version of
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This article is about the novel. For its film adaptation, see
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Appointment with Venus (film)

Jerrard Tickell
War novel
Hodder & Stoughton
Hardback
Paperback
LCCN
51-39007
Jerrard Tickell
Hodder & Stoughton
a Danish film adaptation
Alderney cattle
Channel Island
Ministry of Agriculture
Guernsey cow
A.T.S.
submarine
Sark
kimmel
BBC World Service
Michael Cochrane
ISBN
185496822X
icon
Novels portal
Appointment with Venus
Venus fra Vestø
Laura Secord
Alderneysociety.org

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