To Serve Them All My Days

R. F. Delderfield

Original title: To serve them all my days

first published 1972 McArthur & Co / Hodder Trade, 2005 paperback 672 pages

The protagonist is David Powlett-Jones, a coal miner's son from South Wales, who has risen from the ranks of the South Wales Borderers and been commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in World War I after serving three years in the front-line trenches. In 1918, after being injured and shell-shocked, he is employed to teach history at Bamfylde School, a fictional public school in North Devon, in the south-west of England....

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Editions we hold

To Serve Them All My Days paperback · 2005 · McArthur & Co / Hodder Trade · 672 pages · 9780340839904
To serve them all my days edition · 1999 · Carroll & Graf · 638 pages
To serve them all my days. edition · 1995 · Coronet · 662 pages
To Serve Them All My Days paperback · 1982 · Pocket · 9780671459277
To Serve Them All My Days paperback · 1973 · Coronet Books · 312 pages · 9780340175996
To Serve Them All My Days paperback · 1973 · Coronet Books · 384 pages · 9780340167090
To serve them all my days. edition · 1972 · Hodder and Stoughton · 638 pages
To serve them all my days hardcover · 1972 · Simon and Schuster · 638 pages · 9780671213718

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