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Anne Perry’s present for illuminating the heart’s deepest secrets shines through in her bestselling group of World Warfare I books. With compelling immediacy, she depicts the struggles of men and women torn by their convictions and challenged by the perils of war.
July 1917. Joseph Reavley, a chaplain, and his sister, Judith, an ambulance driver, are bone-weary as they approach the fourth year of the conflict; the peace of the British countryside seems a world away. Over the Western Front, the Struggle of Passchendaele has begun, and among the many fatalities from Joseph’s regiment is the trusted commanding officer, who's replaced by a young major whose pompous incompetence practically guarantees that many good soldiers will die needlessly. But soon he, too, is dead–killed by his own men. Although Joseph wish to turn a blind eye, he knows that he must not. Judith, however, anguished at the chance of courts-martial and executions for the twelve men arrested for the crime, has no such inhibitions and, risking of her own life, helps all but one of the prisoners to escape.
Back in England, Joseph and Judith’s brother, Matthew, continues his desperate pursuit to unmask the sinister figure known as the Peacemaker–an obsessed genius who has determined murder and treason so that they can stop Britain from receiving the war. As Matthew trails the Peacemaker, Joseph tracks his comrades through Switzerland and into enemy place. His search will lead to a reckoning pitting courage and honor resistant to the blind machinery of military justice.
At Some Disputed Barricade can be an Anne Perry masterpiece–brilliant, surprising, and unforgettable.
