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7 reviews
R. f. delderfield

Pocket, 1973

An inspiring story of the life of a devoted educator.
While reading this book, I found myself engulfed in the life of the lead character. I was able to connect with his life on many levels. Thus it was easy to understand the development of his relationship to his profession. The title is inspiring in itself. 'To Serve Them All My Days" is a profound posture to take as an educator. It implies that one will put the best interests of their pupils at ...

Napoleon's Marshals

9 reviews
R. F Delderfield

Chilton Books, 1966

Excellent Read
I flew through this book. The narrative style of writing lent itself to a quick and enjoyable read. I came away with a better overall picture of those who were surrounding Napoleon. Although the subject is broad in the sense that the author tackles so many people. He none-the-less does an excelent job of rounding out a solid picture of Naploeon's marshals, their personalites, their ...

God Is an Englishman

12 reviews
R.F. Delderfield

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1970

Enthralling ... enchanting!!
R.F.Delderfield's "God Is An Englishman" begins a truly riveting history lesson of Britain's Victorian era and beyond. When I first read the book nearly 30 years ago fell in love with Adam and Henrietta Swann and their brood of children. You will, too!

Napoleon in love (An Atlantic Monthly Press Book)

1 review
R. F Delderfield

Little, Brown & Co, 1959

Great book to learn about Napoleon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many people have heard of the legendary general, and emporer, Napoleon Bonaparte. But, what most people don't know is about Napoleon's love-life. Delderfield describes the six most important women in Napoleon's love life, as well as many others. They impacted his life and what he did in his empire. Behind the man who did it all, was a loving caring emperor. These affairs did not last ...

Mr Sermon

2 reviews
R. f. delderfield

Simon & Schuster, 1970

This book proves it is never too late to change your life.
Whenever I smell lilacs, I think of "Mr. Sermon." I have read this book every springtime for the past 20 years. I was 19 when I first tripped across it and liked it so much that three years later I pretended I had lost it, paid the Lake Charles, La., library its purchase price and kept the book. This worn copy is by my bedside, along with the Bible, "Dracula," "Stranger in a Strange Land" and ...

To Serve Them All My Days

14 reviews
R. f. delderfield

Simon & Schuster, 1972

I lost an old friend
Now that I've finished "To Serve Them All My Days" I feel that I've lost an old friend. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, savoring it and rationing my reading so as not to finish it too quickly. A must read for those interested in teaching, education in general, and in understanding children. This story is a study in the trials and tribulations life offers us, and how one person not only ...

Diana

4 reviews
R. F. Delderfield

Pocket, 1974

An unjust review
It is incredible to think DIANA is unreviewed. I have treasured it's reading for 33 years. Mr. Delderfield spins a story of love and dreams unparalleled in devotion to character. As Jan is enthralled with Diana, so am I to be allowed into the view of his view, of her, of his own drab life, and of his dreams, all seemingly detached, yet thrown together for 18 years. The lead characters become ...

Diana: The Unjust Skies

2 reviews
R. F. Delderfield

Chivers Audio Books, 1994

A true tale of romance and devotion, makes you laugh and cry
This is one of the best books I have ever read. I read it as an impressionable teenager and Amazon managed to source the book (although it is out of print). Having re-read it, 15 years later, I see that it has left a lasting impression on me and that I have lived my life with some of the ideals left to me in Delderfield's magical story.

Charlie Come Home

2 reviews
R. f. delderfield

Simon & Schuster, 1976

--"Unputdownable"--
CHARLIE, COME HOME is an amazing and fascinating story about a man who, at first, seems quite ordinary. Charlie Pritchard, a small, timid and quiet type of guy is a bank clerk. He works in a branch of Cadwallader's Bank in a small seaside town in Wales. He boards at the home of the bank manager and his life is rather boring. The other employees of the bank fight constantly and the ...

Diana: There Was a Fair Maid

1 review
R. F. Delderfield

Chivers Audio Books, 1994

--An old story, but worth reading--
DIANA, THERE WAS A FAIR MAID takes place in the 1920's and 1930's in a small village in England and is the story of Emerald Diana Gaylord-Sutton and John Lee. They first meet when she is eleven and he is twelve. Their backgrounds are quite different. She is the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the largest landowner in the area. John is an orphan and the descendent of local farmers. He ...

Too Few For Drums

3 reviews
R. F. Delderfield

Pocket, 1974

Delderfield visits the Penninsular War
This novel is set against the backdrop of Wellington's Penninsular campaign, around the year 1810. Wellington's army is retreating to Lisbon and being chased by a large force under Napoleon's Marshal Massena. 19 year-old British ensign Keith Graham is cut off with a squad of 8 men and a drummer boy after a nervous engineer prematurely detonates explosives destroying a bridge. The inexperienced ...

To Serve Them All My Days - Book 2 - The Headmaster

1 review
R. F. Delderfield

Coronet Books, 1973

To Serve Them All My Days
One of Delderfield's best! World War I saga about a Welsh miner who becomes a school master

Return Journey

1 review
R. f. delderfield

Pocket, 1975

Springtime all over again ...
I defy any over-50 to fail to identify with this beautifully told story. It is a tragic story of love and lost youth, and as the curtain comes down on the final act ... redemption. It asks the question: Which road did you take departing youth's highway? Who was your lost love? Is there hope for any of we romantics? I'm happy to report that the answer to my final question is a resounding YES! ...

Imperial Sunset: Fall of Napoleon 1813-14

1 review
R. F. Delderfield

Stein & Day Pub, 1980

Excellent writing, enlightening analysis
This is a wonderful book and should certainly have a place on anyone's Napoleonic bookshelf. It is almost certainly the best account available of the events of 1813-1814. Military and political events are properly balanced, with neither receiving too much or too little attention. The author is also able to draw about the characters themselves, especially Napoleon himself. Marshal Ney and Marshal ...

Theirs Was the Kingdom

5 reviews
R. F. Delderfield

Simon & Schuster, 1971

Richly detailed and wonderfully authentic
Adam Swann, founder of transport giant Swann-on-Wheels, sits beside his aged father's deathbed as this sequel to God Is an Englishman begins. His family with wife Henrietta is growing up - indeed, his two oldest children have already left the nest. That leaves six at home. Adam and his beloved Hetty have their hands full with the challenges of rearing the rest of their brood, and of continuing to ...

Give Us This Day

1 review
R. f. delderfield

Simon & Schuster, 1973

Give us this Day
A wonderful read about the industrialization of England and the family that lives in that era. A terrific author: Delderfield

The Dreaming Suburb

1 review
R. F. Delderfield

Ballantine Books, 1970

BACK COVER REVIEW
Brilliantly paced, rich and exciting in narrative, The Dreaming Suburb, Volume I of The Avenue, is an extraordinary novel of people whose lives are intertwined in the years between the two wars... Jim Carver - A tough, resolute war veteran, he returns from the trenches to build a better life for his family on the Avenue. Archie Carver - Jim's oldest son, smart, ruthless, he has a quick eye ...

7 Men Gascony

7 reviews
R. f. delderfield

Pocket, 1976

Very good historical fiction
This novel follows seven French voltigeurs (skirmishers) through the later years of the Napoleonic wars. We join them on Lobau Island, on the eve of the battle of Aspern-Essling, and follow them through Wagram, the occupation of Vienna, Massena's peninsular campaign of 1810, a stint as POWs in England, the 1812 catastrophe in Russia, the desperate campaigning of 1813 and 1814, the first ...

Imperial Sunset

1 review
R.F. Delderfield

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1969

interesting
i have this book for over a year. i am a big fan of r.f. delderfield since the early 1970s. his writing of napolean bonaparte is very detailed and easy to understand the sides of bonaparte's personality and thinking.

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