Bartholomew Bandy has become an air ace. On the ground he causes disasters wherever he goes, but in the air heâ€™s deadly, shooting down dozens of German planes in the course of thrilling aerial combats. To the amazement of all who know him he becomes Lieut. Col. Bandy and thanks to his new rank he meets all sorts of people, including his fianceeâ€™s memorable family. As a handy (but disposable) war hero, he encounters a number of hair-raising adventures, not to mention English plumbing and an unforgettable honeymoon night. Thatâ€™s Me In The Middle is exciting, full of military action in the trenches and in the air, and, as it continues to flirt with history, very funny.

That's Me in the Middle (The Bandy Papers, Vol. 2)

Literature & Fiction

JACK, Donald

Humor & Satire

Doubleday Canada, Limited

Bartholomew Bandy loses his plane rescuing Khooshie, a young Indian pilot, and has to take a job as porter at the St. Pancreas Hospital, until Khooshie returns to pay his debt

This One's on Me (The Bandy Papers, Vol. 6)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Doubleday, Canada

The final volume in the Bandy Papers series finds the outrageous and inventive Bartholomew Bandy in India, where he creates and leads a new air force for the Maharajah of Jhamjarh

Me So Far (The Bandy Papers, Vol. 7)

United States

DOUBLEDAY

That's me in the middle: the journals of Bartholomew Bandy, volume two.

Quartet Books

It's me again: The Bandy Papers Volume 3

Me Too (The Bandy Papers, Vol. 5)

Paper-Jacks

Hitler vs. Me (The Bandy Papers, Vol. 8)

February 1940 and the war has yet to hit its stride. Bartholomew Bandy, the Canadian First World War air ace, is eager to enter the fray, but at 45 he is deemed too old for combat. Until, that is, in a dramatic moonlit encounter he makes a personal appeal to Prime Minister Mackenzie King, who is only too happy to send him very far away. Soon Bandy is battling the Boche in the Battle of Britain, and battling just as hard to keep his toupee a secret. As his many admiring readers would expect, Bandy is soon carrying on shockingly with the nobly born Guinevere Plumley, she of the gorgeous body and the face of “an admiral in drag.” Through Guinevere’s mysterious connections, Bandy meets two Winston Churchills, ends up in the wrong bed in an English country house, and plays a vital security role at the Quebec Conference of 1943. There he preserves the Bandy name while dangling from the Chateau Frontenac, and is arrested as a Nazi spy. All too soon, however, he is back on duty, only to be shot down over France, where he is sought by the Allies, the Resistance, and the Gestapo alike because he knows the date of D-Day. Whether in London, Ottawa, Quebec City, or Normandy, Bandy is in lock step with the war’s events – feeding immortal lines to the newsmakers, inconveniencing all and sundry (Lester B. Pearson and Evelyn Waugh, to mention but two) – and always seeing history made from his own unique perspective. As the book says “Waugh is Hell.”

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

MCCLELLAND STEWART

Bartholomew Bandy has become an air ace. On the ground he causes disasters wherever he goes, but in the air he’s deadly, shooting down dozens of German planes in the course of thrilling aerial combats. To the amazement of all who know him he becomes Lieut. Col. Bandy and thanks to his new rank he meets all sorts of people, including his fiancee’s memorable family. As a handy (but disposable) war hero, he encounters a number of hair-raising adventures, not to mention English plumbing and an unforgettable honeymoon night. That’s Me In The Middle is exciting, full of military action in the trenches and in the air, and, as it continues to flirt with history, very funny.

It is 1916. Bartholomew Bandy, fourth-year medical student, decides that it is time to join the War. The prim young Canadian expects that he will have few problems remaining clean and virtuous. But he is aware that his bland, horse-like face drives people crazy, and that he has a certain tendency to be accident-prone. How will the war affect him, and vice versa? The realities of trench war at the front provide a contrasting backdrop for his adventures, as he blunders into contact with all sorts of people, both fictional and historical (the King, Lester Pearson, and Winston Churchill). Three Cheers For Me was first published in 1962, to wide critical acclaim. This expanded version first appeared in 1973, to launch the series now known as The Bandy Papers.

Three Cheers for Me: Volume One of the Bandy Papers (Bandy Papers, Volume One, 1)

Dramas & Plays

“On the way back to the Front I ran over a general.” With this opening line you know that Bartholomew Bandy is back, with a vengeance. It may be 1918 and the war may be grinding on, but Bandy will make a difference. Now he’s in charge of his own squadron of Sopwith Dolphins, but although the hated Hun is pressing fiercely, Bandy’s prime enemy, as usual, is his own Top Brass. Unable to cope with him, the military commanders post him to Russia, where the Western powers are intervening in the Civil War. Bandy has an exciting spell with the Allied forces in Russia, fighting Bolsheviks, capturing trains, meeting Trotsky, facing Communist firing squads, and, most terrifying of all, being a love slave to the diminutive Dasha Fillipovna.

It's Me Again (The Bandy Papers, Vol. 3)

Literary

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That's Me in the Middle (The Bandy Papers, Vol. 2)

This One's on Me (The Bandy Papers, Vol. 6)

Me So Far (The Bandy Papers, Vol. 7)

That's me in the middle: the journals of Bartholomew Bandy, volume two.

It's me again: The Bandy Papers Volume 3

Me Too (The Bandy Papers, Vol. 5)

Hitler vs. Me (The Bandy Papers, Vol. 8)

That's Me in the Middle (The Bandy Papers, Vol. 2)

Three Cheers for Me: Volume One of the Bandy Papers (Bandy Papers, Volume One, 1)

It's Me Again (The Bandy Papers, Vol. 3)