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A Foreign Field (Paperback)
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A Foreign Field (Paperback)
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List price R307
Loot Price R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
You Save R57 (19%)
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A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural
France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of
'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zig-Zag'. Four young British
soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines at the height
of the fighting on the Western Front in August 1914. Unable to get
back to their units, they shelter in the tiny French village of
Villeret, where they are fed, clothed and protected by the
villagers, including the local matriarch Madame Dessenne, the baker
and his wife. The self-styled leader of the band of fugitives,
Private Robert Digby, falls in love with the 20-year-old-daughter
of one of his protectors, and in November 1915 she gives birth to a
baby girl. The child is just six months old when someone betrays
the men to the Germans. They are captured, tried as spies and
summarily condemned to death. Using the testimonies of the
daughter, the villagers, detailed town hall records and, most
movingly, the soldiers' last letters, Ben Macintyre reconstructs an
extraordinary story of love, duplicity and shame - ultimately
seeking to discover through decades of village rumour the answer to
the question, 'Who betrayed Private Digby and his men?' In this new
updated edition the mystery is finally solved.
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