Ronald F. Delderfield Ordine dei libri

Beautiful, resourceful, treacherous, vulnerable - she was a woman full of contradictions and he would never stop loving her. As a young girl Diana is irrepressible, untameable and, to the orphaned John, endlessly fascinating. Only daughter of a wealthy businessman, she is drawn both to a rigorous outdoor life in the west country with her horses and the glittering London society that will be her destiny. They spend a magical unconventional childhood together but Diana's ambition, her passion for life that makes her so desirable, pulls her away from all that makes her happy. The fierce friendship that grew inevitably to love, develops as inevitably to conflict and a betrayal that will mark them both - until the trials of war offers them redemption.

This stirring saga follows seven comrades and heroes through the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars as they fight for their lives from Austria to Portugal, from France to Russia, until they confront their destiny at Waterloo. Drawn from stories left behind by the soldiers of the First Empire, this dramatic tale rings true in both triumph and defeat.

This is the story of five families who live in a quiet avenue in the suburbs of Greater London. It is a story of their hopes and dreams and their mounting fears as war looms and threatens to destroy all that they treasure.

Das Tal der Craddocks - bk937; Ehrenwirth Verlag; R.F. Delderfield; Paperback; 1970