To Serve Them All My Days – Combined Book 1 Late Spring, Book 2 The Headmaster

Historical

Author: R.F. Delderfield

Miner’s son David Powlett-Jones returns from the carnage of the Western Front in 1918, shell-shocked and bitterly hardened by the violence of war. He begins life again as a master at a remote Devon school, controlling the destiny of boys barely his junior. As the years pass David becomes a teacher of rare talent, begins to find peace, and is able to adjust to the changes w….Read More

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