A Bundle From Britain
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- 5,99 €
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- 5,99 €
Publisher Description
This volume tells the story of the evacuations of children from wartorn Britain to America during World War II. Alistair Horne was "a bundle from Britain" who found himself in very different circumstances on his arrival in the United States, and on his later return to Britain in the RAF. This is also more than a story of his war - it is a portrait of life pre-war England, of his remarkable mother and her tragic death, of his growing relationship with his father, of his sometimes horrifying education, to life in and the start of a "special relationship" with America. Alistair Horne is the author of a trilogy of the Franco-German conflict, "A Savage War of Peace", which won the Wolfson Literary Award and a two-volume official biography of Harold Macmillan.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Horne ( Macmillan: 1957 - 1986 ) was evacuated to the U.S. at the outbreak of WW II, when he was 14. In this occasionally witty but anticlimactic memoir, he describes the three years (1940-1943) he spent living with John and Rossy Cutler and their family, of Ganison, N.Y. No Highlanders could be ``more fiercely clannish'' than these Yankees, he writes of his hosts, who generously cared for and educated their ``bundle from Britain.'' Drawing on scrapbooks left by his mother Auriol--who had died when he was a baby--Horne prefaces his U.S. reminiscences with his own family history, describing his childhood in harsh British ``public'' schools. The Cutlers sent Horne to Millbrook, a sylvan New York State boarding school, where he thrived and befriended future writer and publisher William F. Buckley, although he disagreed with Buckley's isolationist position regarding U.S. involvement in the war. Despite the difficulty of adjusting to a new home and the pain of missing his father, Horne recalls his American adolescence with prim, sometimes cloying affection and gratitude. Photos not seen by PW.
