The Englishman's Daughter
Subtitle: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I
Publisher: Delta; Dell Pub.
Published: February 4, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780385336796
First sentence: 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.