Word: tomlinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Tomlinson's narrative of the fighting in France is bitter. On Armistice Day, while London is going mad outside the windows, he goes up to young Bolt's office, sits down alone, smokes a pipe, thinks of Charley Bolt who has been killed. The book ends with Tomlinson and Maynard revisiting the weedgrown battlefields of France, trying to avoid souvenir-collecting tourists, trying to see some hope for the future...
From time to time historical figures enter the book: Viscount Grey, Lord Balfour, Newspaperman Harmsworth (afterward Lord Northcliffe). Of Grey, Author Tomlinson makes one of his characters say: "I see nothing in him, nothing. If he were not so silent and stately, people would laugh. He is silent because if he spoke you would know...