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“With elements reminiscent of Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, in the midst of World War I, a relationship develops between an English lieutenant and a young Russian nurse—a surprising tenderness against the backdrop of war...with likable characters, spending more time in the Old World is an appealing prospect.” - Kirkus Reviews
A novel about the triumph of love.
One spontaneous act of charity on the battlefields of France during World War One will change the life of English Lieutenant Robert Fitzgerald forever. Scourged by the war’s brutality, his faith in God and man nearly gone, Fitzgerald ventures into no-man’s land on a mission of charity to euthanize two maimed donkeys. Shamed by the suffering of the only innocent creatures on the field, Robert unsuccessfully risks his life to aid the poor animals, becoming wounded in the process.
A young Russian émigré, Nurse Charlotte Braninov, encounters Robert at a front line aid station, where he helps her save a dying man, and then at the main hospital where he is ignobly consigned as Supply Officer, blackballed by the Army for his lunacy over the stricken donkeys.
The Russian nurse and the English officer slowly find in one another peace from the suffering they have seen, healing, and a meaning to their lives, with each act of service or sacrifice building a foundation of love strong enough to withstand the hammer-blows of evil and fate.
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Roy “Griff” Griffis When I was ten years old, I decided to be a writer. I’d already experienced the way a good book could transport a reader to another world; it was power and it was the only real magic an imaginative, fanciful boy had ever experienced that didn’t prove to be fraud or illusion. It was a magic I wanted to do. Since that day, I’ve never stopped thinking of myself as a writer. No matter what I was doing (and I’ve done a few things), I continued to write. I’ve held all the usual starving artist jobs along the way: Waiter, book store clerk, driver for a rehab unit, vet tech. I am proud of the 8 years spent in the Coast Guard, where I was one of the first 100 USCG Aviation Rescue Swimmers in the country. By The Hands of Men: The Old World is my second novel. I am currently working on the second volume of the trilogy, entitled The Colonies and Beyond.
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- EditoreCreatespace Independent Pub
- Data di pubblicazione2011
- ISBN 10 1466398043
- ISBN 13 9781466398047
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine266
- Valutazione libreria
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