The soldier's song
By: Alan Monaghan
Series: Magna large print
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780750533690
Subjects: Soldiers; Fiction; World War, 1914-1918; History
Description: Dublin, 1914. As Europe plunges into war, among the thousands of Irishmen who volunteer to fight for the British Army is Stephen Ryan, a gifted young maths scholar. Sent to fight in Turkey, his romantic notions of war are shattered on the rocky shores of Gallipoli, and he is forced to wonder where his loyalty lies when he returns home in 1916 to find Dublin in the grip of rebellion and his own brother fighting against the government. His only hope is his friendship with Lillian Bryce, but even this is tested as Stephen is thrust in to the deadly grind of the Ypres salient.
Notes: Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2010.