Poor bloody fool.” Scott makes a fast friend in David Alexander, an officer beloved by most in the regiment: “As he disappeared inside, there was a great roar of approval from the party.…I thought of how good it must make a man feel to have that sort of effect by simply walking into a room.” Scott takes on another secret when he falls for Alexander’s fiancee, Beatrice Tempest, a nurse. However, Scott doesn’t know what he’s getting into: “I told myself I was used to taking calculated risks.I was sure that I’d get through in one piece somehow. Scott has a secret reason for volunteering: he’s a reporter aiming to get the inside story on the war for his New York City newspaper. Lea offers a gripping novel about the difficult choices that soldiers face during wartime.Īt the center of this novel is Anson Scott, an American volunteer who joins the British Royal Pennine Regiment in France during World War I.
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