Homeland
by Clare Francis | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0330439421 Global Overview for this book
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It is 1946, and the eve of the harshest winter for a hundred years. Servicemen are pouring home from the war to a Britain best by stringent shortages and a desperate housing crisis. Anxieties are heightened by the unexpected arrival of the soldiers of the Second Polish Corps, whose refusal to go back to Poland is regarded with impatience and suspicion.
As anti-Polish propaganda reaches its height, newly demobbed Billy Greer reluctantly agrees to take on a youngPolish veteran named Wladyslaw Malinowski as a labourer in his uncle's withy farm int he heart of the Somerset wetlands.
Stella, the local schoolteacher, has been waiting for the return of Luyndon Hanley, a hero of the Burma Campaign, but increasingly finds herself drawn to the beguiling Wladyslaw.
As the country is brought to its knees by blizzards and hardship, the tensions of post-war life lead to mistrust, accusation, and ultimately death.
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It is 1946, and the eve of the harshest winter for a hundred years. Servicemen are pouring home from the war to a Britain best by stringent shortages and a desperate housing crisis. Anxieties are heightened by the unexpected arrival of the soldiers of the Second Polish Corps, whose refusal to go back to Poland is regarded with impatience and suspicion.
As anti-Polish propaganda reaches its height, newly demobbed Billy Greer reluctantly agrees to take on a youngPolish veteran named Wladyslaw Malinowski as a labourer in his uncle's withy farm int he heart of the Somerset wetlands.
Stella, the local schoolteacher, has been waiting for the return of Luyndon Hanley, a hero of the Burma Campaign, but increasingly finds herself drawn to the beguiling Wladyslaw.
As the country is brought to its knees by blizzards and hardship, the tensions of post-war life lead to mistrust, accusation, and ultimately death.
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Journal Entry 2 by laura0141 at Centre for Women's Health Ex-OBCZ in Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom on Monday, April 9, 2007
Released 17 yrs ago (4/10/2007 UTC) at Centre for Women's Health Ex-OBCZ in Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom
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Found this a hard book to get engrossed in- however I'm sure it will appeal to others!
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