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15 October 2014
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For the Duration - Chapter One

THERE MAY HAVE BEEN other parodies of Whistle While You Work, a popular song of the time from Snow White...

For the Duration - Chapter Two

Meryl was insisting that it did not mean anything, that Mary had not received any letters from Bert for a...

For the Duration - Chapter Three

When I first heard that Bampton was to receive lots of London schoolchildren, I was excited... It was...

For the Duration - Chapter Four

Bampton had its share of troops, with one army camp at the start of the Station road, on the very edge of...

For the Duration - Chapter Five

Whether for reasons such as these, or because they missed their children, or simply out of curiosity, more...

For the Duration - Chapter Six

Bampton was aware of this titanic contest in the sky only through the wireless and the press; “a long...

For the Duration - Chapter Seven

Colonel Colville's lake made a mockery of the duck pond in Telegraph Hill Park, our local park in...

For the Duration - Chapter Nine

London to Bampton, Bampton to Bancroft's: the two noteworthy moves of my boyhood... One of the first...

For the Duration - Chapter Ten

A corridor ran alongside it to the locker-room, from which stairs went up to the dormitories and down to...

For the Duration - Chapter Eleven

A flight or two of enemy aircraft over southern England, with only a few bombers reaching London, might...

For the Duration - Chapter Twelve

Mrs. Pepper, “Matron” to the world of Bancroft's, scarcely had time to sip her tea between...

For the Duration - Chapter Thirteen

Londoners, and those below the missiles’ flight-path — Kent and Sussex, broadly — knew...

For the Duration - Chapter Fourteen

My father had bought a holiday bungalow at Pevensey Bay, and now this investment for better times was...

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