It is the summer of 1940 and in Europe the time of Blitzkreig. John Howard, a 70-year-old Englishman vacationing in France, cuts shorts his tour and heads for home. He agrees to take two children with him.
But war closes in. Trains fail, roads clog with refugees. And if things were not difficult enough, other children join in Howard's little band. At last they reach the coast and find not deliverance but desperation. The old Englishman's greatest test lies ahead of him.
Saturday 17 March 2012
Pied Piper by Nevil Shute
This was a Book Club Forum Book of the month, it was an unusual book for me, and i did enjoy the writing style and the characters.
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