Miners son David Powlett Jones returns from carnage of Western Front inshellshocked and bitterly hardened by violence of war. He begins life again asa master a... » 

Miners son David Powlett Jones returns from carnage of Western Front inshellshocked and bitterly hardened by violence of war. He begins life again asa master at a remote Devon school. As years pass he begins to find peace. Butsoon he will have to face up to prospect of another terrible war. «