Publication details: Macmillan,1939,
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The story of 'an English family' between the wars - 'against the quiet background' of whose life 'is shown the threat offered by the European turmoil now rising to its height'; the action begins in 1919 and ends in 1938, on the eve of the Second World War, by which time awareness of the threat of the Third Reich is manifest in the person of Linda Leidensdorf, a Jewish refugee from Vienna whose entrance into their domestic peace brings tragedy to the Cardwells through her liaison with the son, James.Scarce in the dustjacket.
1939, pp. xi, 526, [2, ads], crown 8vo, original turquoise cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, a little faint edge-spotting, faintly visible ownership inscription at head of flyleaf, the pictorial dustjacket in superb shape, with a couple of tiny nicks and some very faint spotting, very good
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