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    Summarized & Analyzed: "The Silver Sword"
    Summarized & Analyzed: "The Silver Sword"
    Summarized & Analyzed: "The Silver Sword"
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    Summarized & Analyzed: "The Silver Sword"

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    “The Silver Sword” by Ian Serraillier was first published in England in 1956. It is a children’s classic novel. The book was reprinted in 1960. The book was published in the United States under the title “Escape From Warsaw.” The book became very popular soon after its publication.

    According to the author, he had started writing this book five years after the end of the Second World War, in 1949. The book was written in five years. It is a work of fiction, but it is primarily based on fact. The author is said to have got the names of the characters from the Red Cross.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateOct 1, 2017
    ISBN9781370191918
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      Introduction

      About The Silver Sword

      Plot Overview

      About Major Characters

      Complete Summary

      Critical Analysis

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      Introduction

      Student World is a group of college lecturers and professors. We understand how high school and college students feel when they are given to read literature, especially classics. They generally get lost in the long and complex sentences, a parade of characters, and shifting narratives, thus making it difficult for them to make head from tail.

      Our guide books are written in very simple and clear language, without exaggerating the facts. We do not include our opinions and never become too subjective while analyzing the works of literature.

      We try to make our books as easy as possible for students to read them and learn from them so that when they read the original texts of the classics or other works of literature, they are prepared and they know what the work is about.

      In this book we have included introduction to the book, plot overview, about major characters, complete summary, and critical analysis.

      Although we know that some students do not want to read the original text because they prepare only to pass their exams or tests, yet we insist that they read the original text of The Silver Sword so that they can understand the subtle aspects of the narrative which can't be presented in this treatise.

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      About The Silver Sword

      The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier was first published in England in 1956. It is a children’s classic novel. The book was reprinted in 1960. The book was published in the United States under the title Escape From Warsaw. The book became very popular soon after its publication.

      According to the author, he had started writing this book five years after the end of the Second World War, in 1949. The book was written in five years. It is a work of fiction, but it is primarily based on fact. The author is said to have got the names of the characters from the Red Cross.

      Since the author was always against the war, he did not take part in the war, but he did a lot of personal research into the army and war and then drew his own observations and conclusions.

      The Russia’s Red Army had marched into Poland towards the end of war. The author described this event on the basis of the eyewitness accounts that he took from East Wind Over Prague, a book written by J. Stransky.

      The story is set during the time period, in Poland, after Poland had been invaded by the German army. Although the Poles fought very bravely and gave a strong resistance, they were defeated by the more powerful German army, the army of the Reich.

      Having occupied Poland, the Germans ordered the Poles to adore Adolf Hitler in the same way as the Germans adored him. Joseph Balicki, the headmaster of a school in Warsaw, who lived in the town with his wife and children, defied the orders and turned Hitler’s picture to the wall. It led to his imprisonment and the mother was taken away by the Germans.

      Their mother having been carried away by the German soldiers, the Balicki children, Edek, Ruth, and Bronia, had to stay without their parents and their home, for their home had already been destroyed by the Germans.

      The children stuck together as a family and then took Jan as their adopted brother. They decided to travel to Switzerland to be reunited with their parents. It was obviously a very harsh and long journey through three countries. However, they took that almost impossible journey.

      The Silver Sword has never gone out of print since its first publication. Most of the reviews were highly positive and

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