In Pale Battalions

by Robert Goddard | Romance | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0552132810 Global Overview for this book
Registered by monado of Toronto, Ontario Canada on 7/10/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by monado from Toronto, Ontario Canada on Sunday, July 10, 2005
I found this book at at Lochside B&B crossing zone in Port Dalhousie and exchanged it for other books left in the guest book-basket at Lochside on the Water Bed & Breakfast.

This historical mystery is set in World War I in England and Flanders.

From Publishers Weekly:
"Set in England during and after WWI, this is the story of three generations: the two Leonoras, mother and child (and their husbands, both handsome, adoring, young army officers), and of Penelope, who at length unravels the twisted skeins of her mother's and grandmother's past to discover herself."

From Library Journal:
"In the best tradition of British storytelling, here murder, deceit, family honor, and intrigue are intricately woven into a compelling drama of decadent British aristocracy set during World War I. Leonora Galloway, who has for 50 years meticulously shunned discussion of her unpleasant childhood at the family ancestral home near Portsmouth, reveals her past to her daughter. In a controlled and measured way, Leonora recounts her tale, which includes discussion of Leonora's own questionable parentage, the details of an unsolved murder that occurred before she was born, her father's desertion from the army, and the ignominious end of a revered family name and a noble house. Enthralling to the final page. Literary Guild Alternate." —Thomas L. Kilpatrick, Southern Illinois Univ. at Carbondale Lib.

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