Spoils of War: A Trans-Atlantic Tale
Language: English
Published by Fydell Press, 2005
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- Title
- Spoils of War: A Trans-Atlantic Tale
- Author
- Rowley, Peter
- Publisher
- Fydell Press
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0955091500
- ISBN 13
- 9780955091506
- Item weight
- 440 grams
This fascinating autobiography tells of the author-playwright Peter Rowley's transatlantic life and the tragedies involving his two English half-brothers, John and George.
The Rowleys were a wealthy family from Huntingdonshire, now part of Cambridgeshire, who became engulfed by the Second World War. The oldest brother, John, suffered a breakdown at Dunquerque, was jilted by his girl friend, attempted suicide, and became incarcerated in an asylum. But he was the heir, and soon-to-be Lord of the Manor of St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, and Morcott, Rutland. George remained in one of the manor houses.
The youngest sibling, Peter, was taken to America in the last convoy of the European part of the War. As an eleven year old he describes his impressions of friendly Midwesterners. His step-father, a domineering American Air Force colonel, moves Peter and his mother to an Alabama air base commanded by a general who wanted to drop a nuclear bomb on Moscow.
There are adventures in a boarding school in North Carolina, notable for its hypocrisy and repressed sexuality and an account of his undergraduate years at Princeton - described as "a glorified prep school" - including brief glimpses of Donald Rumsfeld, Ralph Nader, and Audrey Hepburn...
Gradually the truth about John's life in a sanatorium emerges, as the author resumes living in the U.K. He learns of the strange private life of this other half-brother, George... Peter becomes involved in the anti-Vietnam war movement, becoming a supporter of Dan Berrigan, the priest who burns draft board files. Before going to jail Berrigan marries Peter to a beautiful Hungarian, Terez, also a refugee from war.
The book ends with the couple trying to arrange for a well-known psychiatrist in London to treat the tragic "spoil of war," Second Lieutenant John Rowley of The Priory sanatorium in west London.
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About the Author
Books include: "New Gods in America", (McKay), 1971, "Ken Rosewall: Twenty Years at the Top", (Putnam and Cassell), 1976, "The Chronicles of the Rowleys", (HLHS), 1995, "Spoils of War: A Trans-Atlantic Tale", (Fydell), 2005.
His play, "God Save England", was performed at the Nat Horne Theatre in New York City in 1993 and at the Priory Centre in St. Neots, England.
Mr. Rowley has 128 published reviews for various publications including the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Nation and Christian Century. He has written 46 articles for various publications including Mademoiselle, The Nation, New Statesman, New Republic, The Spectator and Catholic Digest.
As a photographer, a limited number of Mr. Rowley's photos have appeared in books and magazines including one in the Wimbledon Tennis Museum.
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