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Pied Piper

Nevil Shute

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 246 pages

Rating: 4.2 | 3141 Users | 335 Reviews

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Title	:	Pied Piper
Author	:	Nevil Shute
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 246 pages
Published	:	(first published 1942)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Classics. World War II. Cultural. France

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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 coast and find not deliverance but desperation. The old Englishman's greatest test lies ahead of him.

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Original Title:	Pied Piper
ISBN:	0345017331 (ISBN13: 9780345017338)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom) Jura,1940(France) Dijon,1940(France) …more Joigny,1940(France) Montargis,1940(France) Angerville,1940(France) Chartres,1940(France) Rennes,1940(France) Landerneau,1940(France) …less

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Ratings: 4.2 From 3141 Users | 335 Reviews

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Nevil Shute is such a wonderful storyteller. I wish we had more books by him. My library doesn't have many ; so I've been buying used copies of several of his books. It's my one concession to adding to my own library. I wonder if many younger readers even know of Shute. Even the several of his books that have been made into movies are quite old. This book is another of his WWII stories--an interesting tale of how an "old" man tried to help several children out of France as the Germans were

I really loved this story and the character of Mr. Howard, as the children called him. I loved his relationship he had with the children. As with most war stories, you see the bad, evil and ugly things that happen during this time. But in this story, you see something evolving that makes you feel good. I'm not sure if this was based on a true story or not but I wish it was. Mr. Howard you are a war Hero of a different kind!

Pied Piper. He's among my six Shute favorites. One of those old quiet stories that stays with me. A gentle man's tale of WWII. Here's a professional review from KIRKUS REVIEW" ... Shute has the faculty for seizing upon contemporary drama and weaving it into a story with very human elements. This is the story of a conservative, tradition-bound old Englishman, faced with the need to be needed, meeting it with quiet courage and no bombast. He is caught by rumors of German invasion, while on holiday

Great story - really enjoyed it.

The story teller relates how he meets, Sidney Howard, an old man at his club during the London Blitz. They settle down for a night of bombing with a glass of Marsala (probably more than one) and the old man relates the story of (spoiler alert!) how he had managed to get out of France where hed gone on a fishing trip as the Germans were invading. It wasnt good timing for a holiday! He decides to hightail it back to the coast to try and get back to dear Old Blighty. But along the way he picks up a

Nevil Shute never disappoints me, not being a present day writer.....his novels have a timeless quality to them. A very heartfelt story of an old man mourning the loss of his son in World War II, tries to come to terms with his grief.....in the process meets up with 6 children at various times in war-torn France & endeavors to bring them to safety in England, his home country. It's a wonderful read.....highly reccomend it!

The original Pied Piper of Hamelin story is a German Folk tale where a man offers to rid Hamelin of its rat problem for a fee accepted he plays his pipes and the mice all follow him to be drowned in a river. However when the city leaders renege on the payment the piper plays another tune and the children all follow him into a gap in the mountain where it closes behind them and they are never seen again. I am not sure of the connection as Mr Howard is rescuing the children in this story rather