To Serve All My Dy
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780671555221 (0671555227)
Publish date: December 3rd 1984
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 688
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
War,
Education,
World War II
Description: To Serve Them All My Days is the moving saga of David Powlett-Jones, who returns from World War I injured and shell-shocked. He is hired to teach history at Bamfylde School, where he rejects the formal curriculum and teaches the causes and consequences of the Great War.Eventually David ...
Stars Oliver MilburnSocialist politics and the working towards the dissolving of colonial attitudes in the headmaster's study.
A beautiful novel set in a boarding school between the World Wars. Lt. David Powlett-Jones arrives in the countryside, suffering shell-shock and looking to find a way back into the land of the living. Along the way, he finds love, friendship, hope, and tragedy. Terrific novel, made into a great BBC ...
I would love to give this book ten stars if I could. The tale of the traumatised soldier who finds solace and love for teaching in the boarding school and for whom teaching becomes life long commitment grabbed my attention from very beginning and never let go.
15 years ago
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