Pied Piper
Nevil Shute
246 pages, Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 0345017331
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1969
AdventureBritish LiteratureClassicsFictionFranceHistoricalHistorical FictionNovelsWarWorld War II
It is the summer of 1940 and in Europe the time of Blitzkrieg. 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.