Exile

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This is the story of a remarkable chapter in the history of Elizabeth College and at its heart is the Principal, Henry Milnes MC, OBE. He was a man of considerable moral and physical courage, whose foresight and remarkable tenacity kept the College together on its odyssey to England and whose peerless leadership ensured it didn't just survive but thrived. He met challenges with both strength and subtlety, and his clarity of purpose not only saw the College through the war but through an equally challenging return to Guernsey. It is a measure of Henry Milnes' character that his example and legacy lived on through a generation of teachers and pupils and I am delighted that his story, as well as the poignant, hilarious and alarming stories of an eclectic cast list of personalities have been captured so well in this book. I heartily recommend it. * Sir Richard Cripwell KBE, CB, Lt Governor of Guernsey * The Second World War motto 'Keep Calm and Carry On' has undergone a revival in recent years. But if ever a story expressed its spirit it's this one, of the evacuation of an entire school, from Guernsey, in that war. It's a story told with both energy and sympathy by Bruce Parker, and at its heart stands the great figure of the Principal, Henry Milnes, upon whose shoulders so much of the enterprise rested. He, above all others, kept calm, and carried on. * The Bishop of Winchester, the Rt Rev Philip Mounstephen, College Visitor *