description: It is the summer of 1940 and in Europe the time of Blitzkreig. 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."Extraordinary and gripping...a literary bull's eye." (The Philadelphia Record)
language: English
title: Pied Piper
titlecomplete: Pied Piper
genres: Fiction, Classics, France, British Literature, World War II, Historical, War, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Novels
ratings_count: 4315
places: Landerneau, Joigny, Rennes, London, England, Angerville, Dijon, Jura, Chartres, Montargis
publisher: Ballantine