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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 2711342" data-attributes="member: 6957">Shall we do a word count? I stand by my answer that less than 10% of the material in the book deals with the war. Much more deals with the cultures and locations. Yes, every area has a paragraph or two dealing with the war, but that is to be expected, rather like reading a social studies book from the nineteen forties - the war is present, and must be alluded to.Your thread seems to assume that any story set in the early 1940s in London would almost certainly deal with the main characters going off to be become war heroes, which is just not the case. Nor, to me, is war the 'jump in your face' adventure lead (heck, take a look at the actual, intentional, adventure leads that are in set asides in the book. Most of them do not deal with the war.)For me it was the religious aspect that leapt out. For you it was the war. Neither occupies any where near half of the book.The Auld Grump</blockquote>