The Honeyed Peace

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'M iss Gellhorn,' The Times notecl when reviewing the first publication of The Honeyed Peace, 'reports on humán nature with ari aduit breadth and candour which are rare today. She is tough yet entirely feminine, disillusioned but not hopeless, charitable but discriminating.'
These stories describe the shock effects of the Second World War on widely dissimilar men and women in places as unrelated as Paris and Grimsby, Jaffa and Madrid, Kansas City and Havana. There would seem to be nothing in common between a stateless Germán waif who goes to bed too much and a beautiful sophisticated Frenchwoman heartbroken for her husband, or the demobbed undaunted Poles of the Eighth Army and a successful American novelist losing his mind, or an upper-class English gin plunged into a disastrous Román liaison and an old student of postai history from Tübingen, or a troubled lonelv woman on a night flight from Miami ^and Bulgárián rcíu-gees singing in a cheap café, or an ambushed Basque pelota... Tovább

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'M iss Gellhorn,' The Times notecl when reviewing the first publication of The Honeyed Peace, 'reports on humán nature with ari aduit breadth and candour which are rare today. She is tough yet entirely feminine, disillusioned but not hopeless, charitable but discriminating.'
These stories describe the shock effects of the Second World War on widely dissimilar men and women in places as unrelated as Paris and Grimsby, Jaffa and Madrid, Kansas City and Havana. There would seem to be nothing in common between a stateless Germán waif who goes to bed too much and a beautiful sophisticated Frenchwoman heartbroken for her husband, or the demobbed undaunted Poles of the Eighth Army and a successful American novelist losing his mind, or an upper-class English gin plunged into a disastrous Román liaison and an old student of postai history from Tübingen, or a troubled lonelv woman on a night flight from Miami ^and Bulgárián rcíu-gees singing in a cheap café, or an ambushed Basque pelota player and a bewildered young combat photographer Yet war uprooted all their lives and all of them learned their own kind of courage.
The ten fascinating stories differ írom each other in torm, subject, pace, background and in the predicament of their characters but are linked together by the ironic inclusive title, The Honeyed Peace which cannot heal the past.
Cover drawing by Tony Moore Vissza