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The protagonist is David Powlett-Jones, a coal miner's son from South Wales, who has risen from the ranks of the South Wales Borderers and been commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in World War I after serving three years in the front-line trenches.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- R. F. Delderfield
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 638
- Publisher
- Book Club Associates, Coronet, Distributed by Publishers Group West
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9780786705955
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“The guard at Exeter warned him he would have to change at Dulverton to pick up the westbound train to Bamfylde Bridge Halt, the nearest railhead to the school,but did not add that the wait between trains was an hour.”
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