In Pale Battalions

By Robert Goddard,

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Six months after the sudden death of her husband, Leonora Galloway sets out on a trip to France with her daughter Penelope. At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin... Leonora takes her daughter to the battlefields of WW1, where her father is commemorated…

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1 author picked In Pale Battalions as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

After reading this book three times, I still find it fascinating–and I still have to concentrate to follow the complex plot. The death of a young British army officer during the Battle of the Somme in the First World War lies at the root of a mystery that involves three generations of an aristocratic family living in a decaying country house in Hampshire’s Meon valley.

With its skillful interweaving of past and present, I think this early book by Robert Goddard is one of his best. 

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