![]() Things start to go awry almost immediately when one of the children falls ill and so begins a suspenseful journey with John Howard gathering more children along the way and having to join the vast numbers of refugees on the roads as the Luftwaffe bombed and strafed them. The children’s parents are diplomats and intend to travel to Switzerland on their own. But a couple of English guests in his hotel ask him if he could take their small children with him when he goes back home, they think that will be much safer for them. John Howard had gone to France to have a fishing holiday but to his horror the Nazis began their unbelievably fast march through European countries and before long they were in France. ![]() Two members get into conversation, John Howard is 70 years old and he tells the much younger club member – a naval officer – of his recent exploits in France. The story begins in a London club where an air raid is in progression. ![]() Pied Piper by Nevil Shute was first published in 1942 and the subject is World War 2, I generally love books about the war that were written at the time, and I loved this one. ![]()
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