David Powlett-Jones, a young Welshman, returns from the trenches of World War I disillusioned and suffering from shellshock. Accepted as a teacher at an elite boys boarding school, David fears he won't last. Luckily, the faith of the headmaster who hired him proves well-founded. Over the course of his 20-year rise through the ranks of the school, he finds and loses love with several women.
"After barely surviving the trenches of World War I, an embittered young soldier takes a teaching post at an elite boarding school. It is an unlikely job for a miner's son without a degree, but he proves to be a rare schoolmaster, as passionate about learning as he is about teaching."
"David Powlett-Jones, a young Welshman, returns from the trenches of World War I disillusioned and suffering from shellshock. Accepted as a teacher at an elite boys boarding school, David fears he won't last. Luckily, the faith of the headmaster who hired him proves well-founded. Over the course of his 20-year rise through the ranks of the school, he finds and loses love with several women."
"David Powlett-Jones, a young Welshman, returns from the trenches of World War I disillusioned and suffering from shellshock. Accepted as a teacher at an elite boys boarding school, David fears he won't last. Luckily, the faith of the headmaster who hired him proves well-founded. Over the course of his 20-year rise through the ranks of the school, he finds and loses love with several women."@en
"The entire series based on the novel by R.F. Delderfield, in which John Duttine stars as David Powlett-Jones, a young soldier from the Welsh valleys, invalided out of the army in the First World War, suffering from shell-shock. He takes up a career as a teacher at Bamfylde, a boys boarding school in Devon, where, despite his reservations and scepticism, he becomes immersed in school life."@en
"Een portret van het leven op een Britse kostschool in de periode tussen de twee wereldoorlogen."
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