Used paperback in poor condition. Cover coming loose at spine. Pages intact and discoloured with age. Rubber stamps and ink inscriptions on flyleaf. Second half of book seems to have water stains to top of pages. Still readable as text not affected. 349 pages. Published by Pan Books, 1970. ISBN 0330024345.

The fascinating story of the Weston family in wartime. Thomas, as an escaped prisoner, makes a thrilling journey through occupied Europe. Meanwhile Rab, his girl, finds a strange new love in the course of her wanderings.

Other member of the family experience the horrors of the blitz and still others linger in the artificial glitter of Hollywood and New York. This is a compulsively readable re-creation of the most absorbing years of the century.