Pied piper
By: Nevil Shute
Publisher: House of Stratus
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781842322789
Subjects: Fiction
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.