The Avenue Goes to War Quotes

“He had to admit that there remained, in his heart and head, scarcely one good, honest, pre-war conviction! He had been, successively, an ardent trade unionist, a militant striker, a Socialist of the Centre, a fire-eating pacifist, a fanatical anti-Fascist, a jingo, a pro-Churchill vanguardist, a pro-Russian extremist, and was now inclining towards left-wing Liberalism! He was still, thank God, actively anti-Fascist, and as such could still regard the war as justly waged and justly won, but what would emerge from all this rubble and blather? How had his ancient dream of the Brotherhood of Man and the final renunciation of war been furthered by the overthrow of Hitler and all that overthrow had cost the suburb in blood and treasure?”
― R.F. Delderfield, The Avenue Goes to War