![]() Steve is situated in a French village in the aftermath the end of the war, when he is summoned home by his elder brother after the death of their father George. ![]() Steve and Christian Huxley, the two brothers at the heart of Rob Holdstock’s Mythago Wood, the winner of the 1984 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, would have known the song well. The song is like White Christmas in that respect just as the singer of that great American song is dreaming of a white Christmas precisely because he’s stuck in some Godforsaken part of the world where the chances of a white Christmas are precisely nil, the soldier listening to There’ll Always Be An England would have been aware that, for all its patriotism, it was undercut by the very real sense that, if the pendulum had swung a different way at crucial junctures during the War, there might very well not be an England at all. ![]() Dame Vera Lynn’s version of the unabashedly patriotic 1939 song There’ll Always Be An England would no doubt have helped bolster the spirits of the British Tommys during the unending days of slogging their way through the western front during World War II. ![]()
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