Angels in the Gloom (World War One Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (526 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 159355060X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 10 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mary A. Fulton said ANNE PERRY always tops in historical fiction. Historical fiction always brings such depth to understanding. ANNE PERRY never disappoints.. "Anne Perry still has the touch!" according to ellen. Angels in the Gloom continues the saga of the Reavley family and the deaths of their parents, the mystery of a treaty that could have changed the course of history, and graphic scenes of WWI front lines. This book centers on Joseph Reavley, a chaplain, who is wounded and is sent home to recover. We see the homelife in WWI England, and the horror of attacks in London. Mrs. Perry is an expert in the history of the Victorian Era and the era of WWI. Everything is succinct and not a word frivolously wast. "War for real not for romance" according to Amazon Customer. All of the WWI books are well written and very thought provoking. While each one can stand alone reading them in sequence makes for an all too terrible glimpse into this most ridiculous war.
Angels in the Gloom is a masterpiece, steeped in history and radiant with truth. It warms the heart even as it chills the blood.. In March 1916, Joseph, a chaplain at the front, and Judith, an ambulance driver, are fighting not only the Germans but the bitter cold and the appalling casualties of the Battle of Somme. And when the body of a savagely murdered weapons scientist is discovered in a village byway, the fear that haunts the battlefields settles over the town—along with the shadow of the obsessed ideologue who murdered the four siblings’ parents on the eve of the war. Only Hannah, living with her young children in the old family home in tranquil Cambridgeshire, seems safe.Appearances, however, are deceiving. Scarcely less at risk, Matthew, an officer in England’s Secret Intelligence Service, fights the war covertly from London. Angels in the Gloom is an intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder that features an honorable English family—brothers Joseph and Matthew Reavley, and their sisters, Judith and Hannah. By the time Joseph returns home, rumors of spies and traitors are rampant in Cambrid
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This powerful and intense third novel in Perry's WWI series (after 2004's Shoulder the Sky) continues the Reavley family's anguished search for the "Peacemaker," a shadowy figure responsible for their parents' murders two years earlier, and now intent on Anglo-German world domination as a means toward world peace. Perry's deeply held antiwar feelings are again apparent in this moving story in which "the searing scarlet of grief" destroys families of loved ones lost in the service, and the local vicar questions fundamental beliefs in the wake of mounting casualties. Joseph's brother, Matthew, an intelligence expert, must work with seductive Irish double agent Detta Hannassey to determine the extent of Germany's knowledge of Britain's war strategies, despite his revulsion for her duplicity. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a di