Excerpt from Way of Life He stood still' now in the middle of the village street, looking, listening too, marveling, letting it soak in, his thought idling the corners of his eyes and mouth relaxing from their tightness. Older than time, and neat, and the quiet of it! God, it gives you a catch in the throat! Apart from those damn planes all you can hear is bees, and birds, and once in a while the voices of chil dren that you can't see, and the beech leaves rustling, and will you get an eyeful of the flowers ...
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Excerpt from Way of Life He stood still' now in the middle of the village street, looking, listening too, marveling, letting it soak in, his thought idling the corners of his eyes and mouth relaxing from their tightness. Older than time, and neat, and the quiet of it! God, it gives you a catch in the throat! Apart from those damn planes all you can hear is bees, and birds, and once in a while the voices of chil dren that you can't see, and the beech leaves rustling, and will you get an eyeful of the flowers everywhere? He let out a trickle of cigarette smoke, flicked off the ash. The hush to it is as though you'd stepped into an Open-air cathe dral, the trees the pillars, so that you want to take off your hat and walk on tiptoe, only you'd feel like a dope doing it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 352 p. Contains: Unspecified, Illustrations, black & white. Audience: Children/juvenile. Boston: Little, Brown, 1947. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine Dust Jacket. Very Good. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author on the inside blank page. Book is clean, unmarked with little wear. Dust Jacket has some small tears and creases along the edges. 346 pages. ABEEE An Anglo-American love story, framed in bitter, sometimes factual chapter headings, wherein American Corporal Bill Thatcher, feeling at home in British Little Minchen, loses his heart to Minchen, daughter of a World War I veteran. This is the detailed diary of their love, from their hurried marriage before D-Day and Bill's part in the invasion, to the birth of their baby, and the end of the war. Bill, with high resolves to work for a better world, is embittered by the loss of his fingers which wrecks his dreams of a musical career, and it is Minchen, carrying his child, and hoping to keep alive his music, who bears the burden of his self-searching. A personalized story, with a heavy emphasis on the backgrounds and results of both wars, on the necessary gestures to be made by those who have fought for the peace. An emotional hold substantiated by documented characters, this is however not advanced by its heavy propaganda. ABEEE
