![]() ![]() ![]() In a hospital, a wounded soldier tells her to “look for your damned sweetheart” under Two Storm Wood. Edward is among the missing, and Amy decides to travel to France to search for him on her own, well aware that he is most likely dead. ![]() Then, in early 1919, when the war is newly over, English soldiers must scour the battlefields of northern France to identify rat-eaten corpses and properly bury them. He hates war, which “poisons everything that it does not destroy,” yet he answers England’s call and becomes a captain of the Seventh Manchesters. British author Gray lays bare the horrors of World War I through an Englishwoman’s battlefield search for her fiance.īefore the war, music teacher Edward Haslam and Amy Vanneck fall in love and become secretly engaged, although he is beneath her class, socially a nobody. ![]()
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