Title: Pied Piper
First published: 1941
Description: The novel by Nevil Shute. As the German army overruns France . An old Englishman returning to Britain agrees to escort two children to London. Trains, buses, hotels fail him and each shift in his plans adds a new child until he and six children attempt to evade the Nazis and cross the English Channel.
Subjects: Family values, Fiction, historical, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, France, fiction, Fairy tales, Refugee children, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, History, Social aspects, Fiction, action & adventure, Older men, British, Abandoned children, Rescues, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Switzerland, Jura, Brittany, France
Time periods: 1940, Europe, World War II