Pied piper
by Nevil Shute and John Boyne
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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.
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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, generalPlaces
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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.
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