After the harsh winter of 1917, everyone is almost at the end of their endurance. Hetty, temporarily relieved with Phillip safely home, hopes desperately that her son will not be posted to France again. Phillip, however, determined to go back, adds his name to a list of those available for service.
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Henry Williamson (1895-1977) was a prolific writer best-known for Tarka the Otter, which won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. He wrote much of else of quality including The Wet Flanders Plain, The Flax of Dream tetralogy and the fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, all of which are being reissued in Faber Finds. His politics were unfortunate, naively and misguidedly right-wing. In truth, he was a Romantic. The critic George Painter famously said of him, 'He stands at the end of the line of Blake, Shelley and Jefferies: he is last classic and the last romantic'.
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The powerful conclusion to a great novel of the Great War.,
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This review is from: A Test to Destruction (Pocket Classics) (Paperback)
This moving and sincere final volume of "A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight", covers the massive German offensives of Spring 1918. Phillip at last gains the self-confidence to assert himself as a leader on the battlefield, but is wounded again, and sits out the final months of the war. At first, peace brings only bitter disillusion with the futility of the sacrifices endured. And then, slowly, realization that the human spirit can prevail over even that excess of tragedy
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