Snow Goose
DJ price-clipped and edge-worn, spine faded a bit. Cover edges lightly worn at head and tail of spine. Pencilled numeral UL corner ffep, else pages clean. Binding tight.

Author: Gallico, Paul

My mother gave me her copy of this book to read when I was in high school. To this day I don't think I have ever read a more powerful, tear-jerking story. I'm not sure I ever want to read it again for fear of spoiling the memory of that first reading. A very special book about the Dunkirk evacuation by the civilian fleet of England.
Paul Gallico has an amazing ability to pull every ounce of emotion out of a story for his readers. If you've never read him, please do. You'll find his novels haunt you, satisfy you, and have you searching used book shops (like mine!) for more.
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They tell the story of the Snow Goose today in London, in Dover, in the Channel ports -- wherever there are men gathered who saw the mighty bird soar calm and unafraid through the leaden death and blanketing smoke of Dunkirk, and who owe their safety to the dark twisted man and the small boat that those great black-tipped wings convoyed. They tell of the Snow Goose, all they know of her; but what they tell is only a little of the story. The truth lies far from blazing transports, and the huddled men on the beaches. The truth lies in a distant Channel marsh, ip a winding estuary away from the sea; and it involves not alone the Canada-bred wanderer of the airways, but Philip Rhayader and the blonde girl Frith as well.
Theirs is a curious story, wild and simple and strangely moving in its simplicity; and Paul Gallico tells it with all his superb narrative skill and with a remarkable tenderness of vision. - from the blurb.

Book Price: $15.00