The valley of bones

Anthony Powell

first published 1964 Heinemann, 1964 243 pages

A Dance to the music of time — book 7

This, the seventh volume of Anthony Powell's sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time," sees World War II well underway. In early 1940 Nicholas Jenkins is assigned as a subaltern in a Welsh infantry unit, which is soon posted to Northern Ireland. The Dance perenially exhibits to the reader comical and grotesque personalities, and anyone who has ever done military service knows that nowhere else do you meet such a varie...

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The valley of bones edition · 1991 · Mandarin · 242 pages
The valley of bones edition · 1977 · Fontana · 254 pages
The valley of bones. edition · 1973 · Fontana · 254 pages
The valley of bones edition · 1964 · Heinemann · 243 pages

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