Ebook {Epub PDF} To Serve Them All My Days by R.F. Delderfield

TO SERVE THEM ALL MY DAYS is R.F. Delderfield's epic study of life at an English boarding school between the two wars. It is a story related by David Powlett-Jones, the son of a Welsh miner, whose father and brother died in a pit accident, a socialist whose politics mellow as he ages/5. Of many R. F. Delderfield outstanding works, To Serve Them All My Days is my favorite. With deep insight into human nature the story describes eventual triumph over severe adversity and true dedication to a cause. The sort of book that belongs in a permanent collection to be read again and again/5(19).  · To Serve Them All My Days begins with David Powlett-Jones, miner’s son, invalided out from the Western Front in As his generation of men is killed in the War, schools are experiencing teacher shortages and the Headmaster of one is willing to give him a chance, even though he hasn’t yet obtained a university degree/5().

Biography Childhood in London and Surrey. Ronald Frederick Delderfield was born in Bermondsey, London, in to Alice and William James Delderfield (c. ).His father worked for a meat wholesaler in Smithfield Market, and was the first Liberal to be elected to Bermondsey Council. William supported women's suffrage and the Boer cause in the Boer War. R.F. Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days. Miner's son David Powlett-Jones is shell-shocked after three years on the Western Front. Rather strangely his doctor suggests he'll recover by getting a job in a remote public school in the west country and, despite his utter lack of teaching experience, the young man is immediately offered a. Book review: To Serve Them All My Days. by R. F. Delderfield. Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, New York, pages. Delderfield uses an utterly familiar plot line in To Serve Them All My Days: a Welsh coal miner's son survives World War I, and becomes a teacher at a boys' school in England south of Wales, and grows in his role.

Of many R. F. Delderfield outstanding works, To Serve Them All My Days is my favorite. With deep insight into human nature the story describes eventual triumph over severe adversity and true dedication to a cause. The sort of book that belongs in a permanent collection to be read again and again. To Serve Them All My Days begins with David Powlett-Jones, miner’s son, invalided out from the Western Front in As his generation of men is killed in the War, schools are experiencing teacher shortages and the Headmaster of one is willing to give him a chance, even though he hasn’t yet obtained a university degree. "R.F. Delderfield is a born storyteller." ― Sunday Mirror. To Serve Them All My Days is the moving saga of David Powlett-Jones, who returns from World War I injured and shell-shocked. He is hired to teach history at Bamfylde School, where he rejects the formal curriculum and teaches the causes and consequences of the Great War.