Shoulder the Sky (World War One Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (919 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1593357044 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent WWI novel. No #2 in the series. In July 2010, was looking for a book about WWI, trench warfare and how it was fought. My search came up with the first of this series entitled: 'No Graves As Yet', which was an excellent read and thus I was captured. This is about an English family whose grown children get involved not only in the war, but also are involved in. B. Noia said I wanted to learn about WWI--and I did. Less painfully than through a history textbook!. I have long been an Anne Perry fan and was unhappy to discover that I'd read ALL her Victorian mysteries: I loved them. Transplanting myself from the late 1800s to the time of WWI would be hard, but worth it if she could bring that period (about which I didn't know much) to life for me as well as she had Victorian England. I'v. But oh my the research that Ms Perry does is so amazing. My husband is reading No Graves as Yet Jeanne Lachance5 stars and will eant to read yhe rrst. This was harder to read but I did not give up. I had never read anything on World War I. She is a fabulous writer and this book is so well written.But oh my the research that Ms Perry does is so amazing. My husband is reading No Graves as Yet ans is anxious to start this. I am now reading the third and the tensions are hard. I
By April 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warfare is impartially cutting down England’s youth. A nephew of the respected General Owen Cullingford, Prentice was despised for his prying attempts to elicit facts that would turn public opinion against the war. Meanwhile, Joseph and Judith’s brother, Matthew, an intelligence officer in London, continues his quiet search for the sinister figure they call the Peacemaker, who, like Eldon Prentice, is trying to undermine the public support for the struggle - and, as the Reavley family has good reason to believe, is in fact at the heart of a fantastic plot to reshape the entire world. An intimate of kings, the Peacemaker kills with impunity, and his dark shadow stretches from the peaceful country lanes of Cambridgeshire to the twin hells of Ypres and Gallipoli.. What Englishman hated Prentice enough to kill him? Joseph is afraid he may know, and his sister, Judith, who is General Cullingford’s driver and translator, harbors her own fearful suspicions. Most troublesome to Joseph, Prentice has been killed not by German fire but, apparently, by one of his own compatriots. On one of his rescue forays into no-man’s-land, Joseph finds the body of an arrogant war correspondent, Eldon Prentice
All rights reserved. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly In this excellent sequel to 2003's No Graves As Yet, bestseller Perry continues the exploits of the Reavley children, who lost their parents in a devastating car crash that proved to be no accident on the eve of WWI. When Joseph finds the corpse of an arrogant, bullying journalist in no-man's land, he soon realizes that a British hand was responsible, and that even in the midst of war's savagery, his conscience demands that he seek out the truth. Perry cleverly resolves some plot lines while reserving the solution of others for future mysteries. While j