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Author Bateman, Lorraine

Title At midnight in a flaming town / Lorraine Bateman with Paul Cole
Published London : Karnac Books, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 375 pages) : map
Contents COVER; I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH -- Alan Seeger; 25TH AUGUST 1914; ONE MONTH EARLIER, 26TH JULY 1914; FIVE MONTHS LATER; FIVE YEARS LATER, 1920; AUTHORS' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: FICTION FROM FACT; ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Summary It is 1914 and life has changed dramatically for the people of Belgium. The advancing German military, delayed by a valiant Belgian Army, take out their frustrations on innocent civilians. Shockwaves reverberate around Europe. In the chaotic early days of occupation, events conspire to draw together three very different people. Their destinies become entwined with nurse Edith Cavell and lead inexorably to a dramatic conclusion. The authors have drawn from first-hand accounts to create a powerful story which brings these tumultuous times alive. In Brussels, at the outset of the First World War, th
Notes Print version record
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
SUBJECT Brussels (Belgium) -- History -- Fiction
Subject Belgium
Belgium -- Brussels
Genre/Form Fiction
History
Form Electronic book
Author Cole, Paul
ISBN 9781849408776
1849408777