Product Description

Ronnie Winslow returns to his comfortable upper class home having been dismissed in disgrace from his naval college on suspicion of stealing a five shilling postal order. An eminent QC takes on the case and the boy has to withstand the full might of the Navy seeking to discredit him.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #228599 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Verity's Review of "The Winslow Boy" by Terence Rattigan
Set just before the First World War, a ordinary family with 3 children send the youngest to boarding school. While at school the boy is accused of stealing a postal order, and expelled. The story is about the conflict of the time, and the battle between an aging father trying to clear his son's name, aswell as bringing justice to the government which raises some issues that were on going at the time.

makes one proud to be English
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Written as a play, with two movie adaptations, about a father's battle to vindicate his son, expelled from a naval academy for
allegedly cashing a stolen money order, through the help of an emotionally-detached but brilliant barrister.

Beyond the "battle waged by innocence against injustice", it is the insight into the members of the Winslow family and the people around them that is most engaging.

And though the innocence of the boy is never straightforwardly proven--obviously, the burden of proof is on the prosecution, with any failure necessarily resulting on the preservation of the presumption of innocence--the unwavering determination to defend the son's and the family's honour, the disregard for material cost, and the preservation of dignity in the family's conduct amid the turmoil, made me proud to be English.

I already have spare copies to give to my yet-to-be-born son, and to all my future godsons.
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makes one proud to be English
.
Written as a play, with two movie adaptations, about a father's battle to vindicate his son, expelled from a naval academy for allegedly cashing a stolen money order, through the help of an emotionally-detached but brilliant barrister.

Beyond the "battle waged by innocence against injustice", it is the insight into the members of the Winslow family and the people around them that is most engaging.

And though the innocence of the boy is never straightforwardly proven--obviously, the burden of proof is on the prosecution, with any failure necessarily resulting on the preservation of the presumption of innocence--the unwavering determination to defend the son's and the family's honour, the disregard for material cost, and the preservation of dignity in the family's conduct amid the turmoil, made me proud to be English.

I have spare copies to give to my yet-to-be-born son, and to all my future godsons.
.