Beneath The Poppy Fields

Beneath The Poppy Fields

Christopher Chance

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Editorial:
Strand Publishing UK LTD
Año de edición:
2020
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781907340253
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Beneath The Poppy Fields takes us to the trenches and tunnels where the horrors of subterranean warfare see brave men die valiantly. Back home in England their wives gallivant with one another and other men. The author takes us to their sensationally intimate moments and to their husbands’ unimaginable last minutes.In the blood and gore of World War 1 the whims of the officer class threatens the tunnellers’ very existence - but it is that sound that imperils the lives of them all, the sound of a baby crying out there in no man’s land.Revealing inconceivable circumstances underground and the erotically exciting moments of unbridled passion, displays much about the human spirit during the dark days of the war.Rest in peace Johnny, in the stillness of Etaples cemetery.This novel is fiction based on actual events during The Great War (1914-1918)

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