And when the battalion is on leave away from the front, there is Beatrice Tempest - the most beautiful woman Scott has ever laid eyes on, but who is engaged to Alexander. Only Scott's friend, the elegant, dandified David Alexander is impervious to the murderous rages of the Company Captain Tollman, a monstrous man who victimises anyone who dares oppose him. While the soldiers are raring to fight, the commanding officer is antiquated and the officers themselves are divided into factions. But life in the trenches is far from what he had first expected.
Embedded undercover in a British infantry regiment on the Western Front, Anson Scott, an American newspaperman, watches, waits and writes his articles in secret, sending them out uncensored for his readers in the USA. It is 1916 and the war in France is hot and about to get hotter. Silver Medal winner in the 19th Annual Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award 2016 An emotional thriller of a historical novel set in France at the height of the First World War.
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