The Green Gauntlet [antikvár]

A Horseman Riding By, R. F. Delderfield's rich and heartwarming saga of English country life, stands as one of the most engrossing family chronicles of the last forty years. In his latest növel, The Green Gauntlet, we return to the seven families whose lives are rooted in the green acres of the great farming valley of Shallowford. The time is just at the outbreak of the Second World War, when the valiant püots of the RAF are locked in combat with the Luftwaffe in the skies above Devon and England stands imperilled as never before by the dark shadow of Nazi invasion. The hero again is Paul Craddock- older, wiser, but still fiercely dedicated to his land, to his children and grandchildren, to his tenants and to the vanishing way of life they represent. The Green Gauntlet distills the essence of three decades of modern English life-bringing to a magnificent close a vast and thrilling panorama that has already won the hearts of so many readers. "Bathed in a love of land, love of tradition, a sense of responsibility, 'Gauntlet's' Shallowford estate and the Sörrel Valley become a kind of modern Camelot, a never-never-land that still exists for a happy few." -Des Moines Sunday Register