To Serve Them All My Days

Delderfield, R. F.

ISBN 10: 0671213717 / ISBN 13: 9780671213718

Published by Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1972

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Stated; First U. S. Edition. Rem. Mk. On The Lower Edges. Foxing With Light Soiling.

Seller Inventory # 021525

Bibliographic Details

• Title: To Serve Them All My Days
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671213717
• ISBN 13: 9780671213718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Thus
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Historical Fiction

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Synopsis

Young David Powlett-Jones, a Welsh miner's son, is invalided home from France when he suffers severe shell shock on the Western Front. At a remote English public school in Devon the debilitated veteran, himself barely out of his teens, decides temporarily to try his hand at teaching while striving to awaken from the nightmare of World War I -- the national catastrophe that sweeps England out of the comfortable certainties of the Victorian Age into the moral perplexities and harsh economic realities of more modern times.

About the Author

R. F. Delderfield was born in South London in 1912. On leaving school he joined the Exmouth Chronicle newspaper as a junior reporter, where he went on to become Editor. From there he began to write stage plays and then became a highly successful novelist, renowned for brilliantly portraying slices of English life. With the publication of his first saga, A HORSEMAN RIDING BY, he became one of Britain's most popular authors. Many of his bestselling novels were later adapted for television. He died in 1972.