Pageant of Life - A Human Drama - Mary Ellen Schick
About the book:Rugger, shrapnel, letters home from the Front, a girl waiting for her Captain--all this and more--are present in this dramatization of PAGEANT OF LIFE, based on the novel of Owen Francis Dudley. Set in the England of WWI, PAGEANT OF LIFE plunges four teens, their families and country into the whirlwind of tension, moral testing, and fear--not only of shrapnel--that is all too familiar a century later.Cyril Rodney, the athlete, chooses Army life, thrills to the excitement of shrapnel..