On a balmy evening at the end of August in the year 1914, four young soldiers of the British army-two Englishmen and a pair of Irishmen-crouched in terror under a hedgerow near the Somme River in northern France, painfully adjusting to the realisation that they were profoundly and hopelessly lost, adrift in a briefly tranquil no-man's-land somewhere between their retreating comrades and the rapidly advancing German army, the largest concentration of armed men the world had ever seen.
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The Englishman's daughter
a true story of love and betrayal in World War I
1st American ed.
by Ben Macintyre
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"In the first terrifying days of World War I, a handful of British soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines on the Western Front. Unable to rejoin their units, which were retreating under the German onslaught, they were forced to hide in the French countryside. The Englishman's Daughter is the extraordinary true story of these men, their rescuers, and the bittersweet love affair that sprang up between an enchanting French villager and a fugitive English soldier.
This romance flourished under the very eyes of German occupiers, resulted in the birth of a child, and eventually tore a community apart."--BOOK JACKET.
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Table of Contents
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Prologue
The angels of Mons
Villeret, 1914
Born to the smell of gunpowder
Fugitives
Behind the trenches
Battle lines
Rendezvous
Aren't those things flowers?
Sparks of life
The Englishman's daughter
Brave British soldier
Remember me
The Somme
The wasteland
Villeret, 1930
Villeret, 1999
Edition Notes
"Originally published in 2001 by HarperCollins, Great Britain, as A foreign field: a true story of love and betrayal in the Great War"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-241) and index.
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In the first terrifying days of World War I, four British soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines on the western front. They were forced to hide in the tiny French village of Villeret, whose inhabitants made the courageous decision to shelter the fugitives until they could pass as Picard peasants. The Englishman's Daughter is the never-before-told story of these extraordinary men, their protectors, and of the haunting love affair between Private Robert Digby and Claire Dessenne, the most beautiful woman in Villeret. Their passion would result in the birth of a child known as "The Englishman's Daughter," and in an act of unspeakable betrayal, a tragic legacy that would haunt the village for generations to come. Through the testimonies of the villagers and the last letters of the soldiers, acclaimed journalist Ben Macintyre has pieced together a harrowing account of how life was lived behind enemy lines during the Great War, and offers a compelling solution to a gripping mystery that reverberates to this day. - Publisher.
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