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Title: The English air by D. E Stevenson ISBN: 0-03-016841-4 Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston Pub. Date: 1976 Format: Unknown Binding List Price(USD): $7.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.17 (6 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: How does a strong-minded person learn tolerance?
Comment: D. E. Stevenson has written a wonderful book about a young, half-German man who comes to visit his English relations and falls in love with an English girl. This is set just before WWII. He comes prepared to dislike the English, yet, in the course of his visit, makes many friends. All of us have incorrect, pre-conceived ideas about other peoples and cultures and this story helps us learn the importance of giving people who are different than us a chance. We may not only find that we like them, but we may even be able to learn something from them.

Rating: 2
Summary: Keep DES separated from reality
Comment: I am enjoying other DES books, but "The English Air" deals directly with politics and the start of WWII. It is impossible to mix the pleasant "hammock book" world of DES with discussions of concentration camps, Nazi war preparations etc. DES' world is one where the characters are already nostalgic for the good old days, and her Scotland is vaguely like LLBean's "Maine"- fun but probably remote from the place ordinary people inhabit. It is not a world of politics and military action. Once these things are brought together, I found myself facing up to the hidden politics of all the rest of DES' world: i.e. her manly young British heroes go off to various parts of the Empire to fight "bandits." Some of these bandits may have been nationalist freedom fighters- but the point is, no one reads DES to get into these issues. "The English Air" makes them unavoidable.

Rating: 5
Summary: Awesome
Comment: This book was such a quick read I absolutely loved it. I would recemend this book to anyone who wants to read it.