It is the summer of 1940 and in Europe the time of Blitzkrieg 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 coaIt is the summer of 1940 and in Europe the time of Blitzkrieg 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 grippinga literary bull s eye The Philadelphia Record
Pied Piper By Nevil Shute It is the summer of 1940 and in Europe the time of Blitzkrieg 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 coaIt is the summer of 1940 and in Europe the time of Blitzkrieg 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 grippinga literary bull s eye The Philadelphia Record
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