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Pied Piper Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 246 pages
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Title:Pied Piper
Author:Nevil Shute
Book Format:Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 246 pages
Published: (first published 1942)
Categories:Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Classics. World War II. Cultural. France

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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.

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Original Title: Pied Piper
ISBN: 0345017331 (ISBN13: 9780345017338)
Edition Language: English
Setting: London, England(United Kingdom) Jura,1940(France) Dijon,1940(France) …more Joigny,1940(France) Montargis,1940(France) Angerville,1940(France) Chartres,1940(France) Rennes,1940(France) Landerneau,1940(France) …less

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Old guy tries to escape newly occupied France with an increasing number of children.



Recovering from the death of his Son, an RAF pilot during the early days of the War, elderly John Howard takes a Holiday in France close to the Swiss Border. The news of the War is sombre, the French Invasion by Germany is gathering pace, and is swooping southwards beyond Paris.He is asked by friends to escort their two young children, back to England and embarks on a race against time to reach the atlantic coast and a passage to safety, before the advanzing Nazi forces consume France. Along the

Thoroughly British, thoroughly enjoyable!Nevil Shute is the author of one of my favorite novels A Town Like Alice. I had not realized he had written quite a few more novels. This one, Pied Piper came highly recommended and rightfully so. It is a wonderful story, simple and deep. Thoroughly British

A beautiful, heartwarming and encapsulating story about an elderly English man holidaying in France during World War II and coping with feelings of uselessness' and getting over the death in combat of his son,While he is in France, that country is invaded by the Germans and two small English children come into his custody and he takes them under his wing with the aim of getting them to Britain.He takes on the role of nurturer and protector and we get a window into France during the war and the

The original Pied Piper of Hamelin story is a German Folk tale where a man offers to rid Hamelin of its rat problem for a fee accepted he plays his pipes and the mice all follow him to be drowned in a river. However when the city leaders renege on the payment the piper plays another tune and the children all follow him into a gap in the mountain where it closes behind them and they are never seen again. I am not sure of the connection as Mr Howard is rescuing the children in this story rather

Ah, this is one of my favorite books of all! Shute is a wonderful writer. His characters are quite ordinary and believable yet they are also extraordinary and wonderfully good. He gives me faith in humanity, in the world, and in the power of just calmly going about doing what needs to be done. Most people really are like this! The narrative builds from a calm center and grows more and more compelling and urgent. His protagonist, a 70 year old British gentleman, goes fishing in the Jura in France