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The publishers of the book called it "The first great novel of the war". Kirkus Review agreed with the byline but characterised it more as a love story than a war story. It said that the book was, "... a cross section of England, under fire; it gives one a deep conviction of something more to be won
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Clive Briggs/Hanley: A working-class private in the British Army who fought in France and returned to England via Dunkirk.
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Spending leave together on the South Coast during the Battle of Britain and the beginning of the
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Prudence Cathaway: An upper-middle-class sergeant in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
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This Above All (film)

Eric Knight
War novel
Romance
Cassell
Eric Knight
Academy Award
movie
Polonius
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
blitz
Dunkirk
movie of the same name
Anatole Litvak
Tyrone Power
Joan Fontaine
Academy Award for Best Art Direction
"To thine own self be true"
"This Above All"
"The 15th Academy Awards (1943) Nominees and Winners"
This Above All
Faded Page
Stub icon
World War II
stub
expanding it
See guidelines for writing about novels
talk page

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