For Esme - With Love and Squalor is the story of Sergeant X, a soldier in the Allied Forces during World War II. While training in Devon the sergeant meets an English girl named Esme who has been orphaned by the war. He is deeply moved by her bravery and fortitude. Later, suffering from a nervous breakdown after the war's end, he is helped toward recovery by a letter from the same girl.
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