I was wishing this book would hurry up and end but now I'll miss my old friend Paul Craddock, a strong, honorable, simple man whom you could always count on. This last book of the trilogy spends a lot of time with the characters remembering things that happened in the previous two books which got a little old but that is how the author wanted to wrap things up. The books centers on Craddock and his Valley which he is trying to preserve, with some success, throughout the two World Wars and on into the 1960's. Nowadays you see farmland being developed into shopping malls and housing developments everywhere and that will always make me think of Paul.