Based on the lighthearted reflections that Herriot-or Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym-published between 19, All Creatures Great and Small grapples frequently with the lead-up to the Second World War. “Herriot might have been voicing an understandable desire,” wrote Mitzi Brunsdale in her book James Herriot, “to keep the whole bitter experience as far as possible from his home.”Īll Creatures Great and Small, the latest TV adaptation of Herriot’s work (following the BBC series of the same name, which ran from 1978 to 1990) currently airing its third season as part of PBS’s venerable Masterpiece anthology, makes no such choice. Though he served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, the veterinary surgeon turned bestselling memoirist James Herriot eschewed discussion of that conflict in his 1974 book All Things Bright and Beautiful.
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