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To Serve Them All My Days

To Serve Them All My Days
By Ronald Frederick Delderfield

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #133733 in Books
  • Published on: 1995-08-03
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 576 pages

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"A genuinely warm, comforting novel"

(Susan Hicks, Historical Novels Review )

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A truly great read5
Delderfield offers us one of the best stories about life between the wars. David Powlett Jones, miners son and scholarship boy, is invalided out of the trenches and sent to convalesce as a teacher at a minor public school. From this fairly mundane start we are then catapulted into a journey of discovery. The many and diverse characters are brought to life superbly and we follow P-J's successes and failures almost as active particpants than mere observers. This is a story which, although dated, does much to capture an England where hope and good were ideals to be admired. A terrific read and a deserved masterpiece. Don't lend this to a friend, you may not see it back!

A compelling tale of a "fish out of water"4
Delderfield knows how to take you on the same journey of experience as his characters. Powelett-Jones is the typical "fish out of water", thrust into the alien world of boys public schools between the wars. With him we can experience the pain of war, the politics, bigotry,class-struggle of a Welsh collier's lad struggling to come to terms with his life and carving out a place for himself, a place that is comfortable yet not without challenge. I would like to think that somewhere characters like Algie Herries and P-J, exists, alas the world created by Delderfield truly is fictional. This is a rivetting read. I found myself eager to race on and find what was over the page. Truly destined to be a classic, if it isn't already.

To Serve them all my days5
A great read..captures the English Public school system of the past..any public school boy as recent as the 1980s will take things from this book and smile..A real page turner..from the trenches of the war to end all wars, Coal mines of Wales..politics of the 1920s..to the rise of facism..and the golden summers of the late 30s..you will return to this book often.