Young David Powlett-Jones, a Welsh miner's son, is invalided home from France when he suffers severe shell shock on the Western Front. At a remote English public school in Devon the debilitated veteran, himself barely out of his teens, decides temporarily to try his hand at teaching while striving to awaken from the nightmare of World War I -- the national catastrophe that sweeps England out of the comfortable certainties of the Victorian Age into the moral perplexities and harsh economic realities of more modern times.
- ISBN10 0671213717
- ISBN13 9780671213718
- Publish Date 1 January 1972
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 11 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Simon & Schuster
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 638
- Language English