The Soldier's Return

London England: Sceptre. Fine/Near Fine. 1999. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0340751002 Signed by Author Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. The Soldier's Return. Price clipped to D/J. Signed by the author (Melvyn Bragg) to previous owner on title page. In the Spring of 1946, ex-corporal Samuel Richardson returns home from Burma to Wigton in Cumbria, to the jouful reklief of his young wife, Ellen. He finds a town in which little, seeminglu, has changed; the same twisting alleys, wesvers' cottages and medieval archways; and the same lack of prospectsd for an uneducated, working-class man like himself. Sam, however, has changed. With this absorbing story of one family, Melvyn Bragg conveys the experience of millions in the aftermath of the Second World War. Based on his own backgriund and strnglu evoking both the era and the Cumnrian landscape. this book is a taut, profoundlu moving and powerful novel by a writer at the height of his powers. 346 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .