Keep the home fires burning : War at Home, 1915 / Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.
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TextSeries: Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia. War at home ; Publisher: London : Sphere, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 408 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780751556292
- 0751556297
- 9780751556315
- 0751556319
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Main Library | Fiction | Harrod-E Cynthia | WH 2 | Available | 33111008833168 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The year is 1915, and the war is raging on . . .
The war was not 'over by Christmas' after all and as 1915 begins, the Hunters begin to settle into wartime life.
Diana, the eldest Hunter daughter, sees her fiance off to the Front but doesn't expect such coldness from her future mother-in-law. David's battalion is almost ready to be sent to the Front, but how will Beattie's fragile peace of mind endure? Below stairs, Ethel, the under housemaid, is tired of having her beaux go off to war so she deliberately sets her sights on a man who works on the railway, believing he won't be allowed to volunteer. Eric turns out to be decent, honest and he genuinely cares about Ethel - is this the man who could give her a new life?
The Hunters, their servants and their neighbours soon realise that war is not just for the soldiers, but it's for everyone to win, and every new atrocity that is reported bolsters British determination: this is a war that must be won at all costs.
Keep the Home Fires Burning is the second book in the War at Home series by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, author of the much-loved Morland Dynasty novels. Set against the real events of 1915, this is an evocative, authentic and wonderfully depicted drama featuring the Hunter family and their servants.
The year is 1915, and the war is raging on, in this second book in the new series by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. The series is an epic family drama set against the evocative backdrop of World War I, with a book a year for each year of the war. Set against the real events of 1915, this is a rich and wonderfully depicted drama featuring the Hunter family and their servants.
The year is 1915, and the war is raging on. Diana Hunter sees her fiancé off to war but doesn't expect the coldness she receives from her future mother-in-law. Ethel, the under housemaid, sets her sights on Eric, who works on the railway, believing he won't be allowed to volunteer. It's going to be a long, hard grind ... but every new atrocity reported bolsters British determination that this war must be won at all costs.