[Alford Saga 06] • The Gunner
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- Authors
- Almond, Paul
- Publisher
- Red Deer Press
- Tags
- family saga , world war 1 , passhendaele , brothers , canadian , the alford saga , historical , ptsd , hospital , vimy ridge , ypres , quebec
- ISBN
- 9780889955127
- Date
- 2014-05-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 5.60 MB
- Lang
- en
Eric Alford's safe and romantic life on the peaceful Gaspe Coast is shattered by his decision to follow his elder brother John (the Pilgrim and The Chaplain) into the 1914-18 cataclysm of death and destruction known as the "Great War for Civilisation". By his thundering Howitzer, Gunner Alford assaults the Hun through every major Canadian battle of WWI: Ypres, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, Hill 70, The Somme, and "The Hundred Days" that ended the conflict.
A developing romance with a lovely Londoner is cut short by a German shell. Evacuated to a Rouen field hospital, he is surrounded by hellish wounds: blindness, amputations, and gas-inflicted horrors. Finally, back in Blighty among other shell-shock victims, he recovers and returns to his Gaspe home, bereft of his London love and changed forever.