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Product Description: A Son of War presents Melvyn Bragg’s second installment in what the Sunday Telegraph calls “one of the finest literary sagas of postwar Britain.” Continuing the story of the Richardson family begun in the award-winning The Soldier’s Return, this powerful novel depicts how the terrible upheavals of World War II reverberated in the peace that followed...read more

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9781628725780 | Arcade Pub, February 23, 2016, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A Son of War presents Melvyn Bragg’s second installment in what the Sunday Telegraph calls “one of the finest literary sagas of postwar Britain.
9781611451054 | Arcade Pub, April 18, 2011, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The second volume of a trilogy that began with The Soldier's Return.
9781559707206 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, July 7, 2004), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A sequel to The Soldier's Return focuses on World War II soldier Sam Richardson's eight-year-old son, Joe, who in the years before adolescence struggles with the changes that the war has brought to his family.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754007951 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, May 1, 2002), cover price $84.95

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A taut, profoundly moving, and powerful novel.

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9781628725261, titled "The Soldier's Return" | Arcade Pub, May 26, 2015, cover price $14.99
9781611452730, titled "The Soldier's Return" | Arcade Pub, April 18, 2011, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A taut, profoundly moving, and powerful novel.
9781559706858, titled "The Soldier's Return" | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, July 10, 2003), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Deeply scarred by traumatic memories of World War II, soldier Sam Richardson returns home in 1946 and strives to manage changes in his family, which includes a young son who barely remembers him and a wife with a new sense of independence from her wartime job.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754004196, titled "The Soldier's Return" | Unabridged edition (Sterling Audio Books, February 1, 2000), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: When Sam Richardson returns in 1946 from the "Forgotten War" in Burma to his hometown in northern England, he finds little changed.

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9781611453461 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, January 4, 2012), cover price $16.95

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Product Description: Set in the 1950s, this absorbing novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives.

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9781559707381 | Arcade Pub, July 6, 2005, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A series of people find their fates intertwined, from a teenager's seduction by the outside world, to his romance with a girl whose life is precariously balanced, to the struggles of his middle-aged parents.

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9781611453737 | Arcade Pub, April 18, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Set in the 1950s, this absorbing novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives.

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A sequel to The Soldier's Return focuses on World War II soldier Sam Richardson's eight-year-old son, Joe, who in the years before adolescence struggles with the changes that the war has brought to his family. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781559706865 | 1 edition (Arcade Pub, July 10, 2003), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Focuses on World War II soldier Sam Richardson's eight-year-old son, Joe, who in the years before adolescence struggles with the changes that the war has brought to his family.

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Deeply scarred by traumatic memories of World War II, soldier Sam Richardson returns home in 1946 and strives to manage changes in his family, which includes a young son who barely remembers him and a wife with a new sense of independence from her wartime job.

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9781559706391 | 1 edition (Arcade Pub, August 12, 2002), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Scarred by memories of World War II, soldier Sam Richardson returns home in 1946 and strives to manage changes in his family, which includes a young son who barely remembers him and a wife with a new sense of independence from her wartime job.

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Bega, a lovely Irish princess gifted with miraculous powers, and Padric, a magnetic British warrior-prince, find themselves torn between spiritual fulfillment and physical desire, ideals and political expediency, in a novel set against the backdrop of the seventh-century dawn of Christianity. 100,000 first printing.

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9780375500039 | Random House Inc, November 1, 1997, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Bega, a lovely Irish princess gifted with miraculous powers, and Padric, a magnetic British warrior-prince, find themselves torn between spiritual fulfillment and physical desire, ideals and political expediency, in a novel set against the backdrop of seventh-century Christianity

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A fifty-four-year-old bank manager, struggling against the confines of his over-controlled world, and an eighteen-year-old woman, seeking to heal wounds from a troubled past, find unlikely love together

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9780316105989 | Little Brown & Co, January 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A fifty-four-year-old bank manager, struggling against the confines of his over-controlled world, and an eighteen-year-old woman, seeking to heal wounds from a troubled past, find unlikely love together

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Against the background of the Cumbrian landscape, Josh Lawton falls in love, marries, fathers a child and is then inevitably and shockingly betrayed. His fate becomes a warning against simplicity and a cry for its presence in everything.

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9780340423295 | Hodder & Stoughton, November 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Both a contemporary love story and a portrayal of innocence brutally curtailed, this novel charts the rites of passage of a young Cumbrian who falls in love, marries, fathers a child and is then betrayed.

Paperback:

9780340494806 | New edition (Hodder & Stoughton, March 1, 1989), cover price $13.30 | About this edition: Against the background of the Cumbrian landscape, Josh Lawton falls in love, marries, fathers a child and is then inevitably and shockingly betrayed.

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Product Description: Douglas Tallentire has at last achieved what his father and grandfather before him fought for so bitterly. Educated and independent, he can carve out his own career and spread his wings. But success, freedom and happiness are more elusive than ever in the fiercely competitive Seventies...read more

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9780436067143 | Wm Collins & Sons & Co, September 1, 1980, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Douglas Tallentire has at last achieved what his father and grandfather before him fought for so bitterly.

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