Stranger to Europe, with Additional Poems

Balkema, 1960, hardcover, 79 pages, condition: as new.

The author arrives into a peaceful Ireland (Kerry) after a long war (WW2), with others (of his unit). Conversation (with locals or others familiar with names of trees, bushes etc),  on ordinary scenery and weather creates an emotional relaxation not known for some time.  However, this discovery of emotion in peacetime slips into a symbolism of his previous years and the realisation of trust and companionship between soldiers, in war in particular.

This triggers an emotional acknowledgment that a bond, a form of love and unity, has been established in him (and all) for such close army companions, that will always be there.