To Serve Them All My Days

Plot

David Powlett-Jones returned from the carnage of the Western Front, a shell-shocked young man bitterly hardened by the violence of war. He began life again as a master at a remote school, in charge of boys barely his junior and with an influence to control their destiny. As the years passed he became a schoolmaster of rare talent, able to adjust to the changing current of society and finally to face up to the prospect of another terrible war..