Private Schulz [Hardcover]

A new, revised and expanded version of Martin Noble's 1981 black comic novel, adapted from Jack Pulman's much-loved, highly acclaimed and BAFTA award winning television series. A few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, recently released convict Gerhardt Schulz is transferred from an underpants factory to the SS. Private Schulz is determined to sit out the war but, under the fiendish Major Neuheim, he is soon involved in kidnapping British spies on the Durch border and bugging rooms in Berlin's notorious Salon Kitty brothel. It is here that he falls in love with Fraulein Bertha Freyer, the high-class prostitute with a psychological block that prevents her from doing it with anyone below the rank of Major. When the British begin dropping clothing coupons on Germany, Schulz comes up with a retaliatory scheme for swamping Britain with forged five pound notes. When against all odds Adolf Hitler himself approves the scheme, Private Schulz finds himself being parachuted into England to bury a canister of fivers in the Kent countryside. Schulz just needs a personal plan to get out of the war alive - with a few leftover notes. Reviews of the 1st Edition: I absolutely treasure my copy of Private Schulz. The novel is both compelling and first rate. (Richard Gould) Martin Noble's novel based on Jack Pulman's Private Schulz is the funniest book I've read since The Good Soldier Schweik. It takes a lot to make me laugh when reading a book but this does it. It really is excellent, and is written so well and descriptively. (George A. Athans) If you laughed at the frustrated, unfortunate Private Schulz in the recent BBC television series, then you will love the book version. Turned into a novel by Martin Noble from the late Jack Pulman's screenplay, Private Schulz is able to go into more detail than the TV original, both in characterisation and plot. The result is a finely drawn and hilarious tale of the SS plan to flood wartime Britain with forged ?5 notes - wló!