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London: Pan Books. Good. 1968. Reprint; Second Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some reading and cover creases, some edge and shelf wear with small splits to spine ectremities, small sticker ghost to front cover, ink initial to inside front cover, paper starting to tone with some foxing. ; Pan X399, second printing, 1966. Good reading copy, no names inside. ; 256 pages; A retired country solicitor, John Howard, holidaying in the Jura Mountains in the summer of 1940, is persuaded to escort two English children home to safety following the German invasion. Helped by the stubbornness and patience of old age, but hindered by the addition of a further five waifs and strays picked up along the way, he attempts to lead his little flock across France as it crumbles around them. .
Synopsis
Young Adult Novel, set in Europe in 1940. 70-year-old Englishman goes fishing in the French mountains, near the Swiss border. To amuse two children he's met, he makes a whistle from a twig of hazel bush [hence, the book's title]. When Germany invades France, he decides to go back to England, and is asked to take the children with him. Along the way, he finds another child, and another, and another, leading his young outcasts through shell-fire and sacrifice, in a search of safe haven from a world at war. A poignant sub-plot shows why this man had left England in perilous times, and how he found in France a woman who healed this poignancy (and, in the process, her own personal sorrow). The story ends in a surprisingly gratifying way. The dangers of death and war remain in the reader's heart, along with the resounding echoes of courage, honesty, love. Mostly love. Book-reviewers called it "the best story of World War II" *[Cincinnati Enquirer]* ... "piles up dramatic force -- the work of a master storyteller" *[New York Times]* ... "gripping and tender" *[New York Herold Tribune]* ... "moving, heart-warming -- (Nevil Shute's) greatest novel" *[Book Buyer's Guide]* ... "He write (in this touching book) about human beings and ordinary human emotions in a way that makes the reading of each page an unalloyed pleasure" *[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]* ...... [comments by: Billy Jack]
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- Bookseller
- Books in Bulgaria
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30866
- Title
- Pied Piper
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Reprint; Second Printing
- Publisher
- Pan Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Mass Market PB
- Bookseller catalogs
- 20th Century Warfare;
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