Bøger af Alan Vaughan

The creeping shadow of the Great War and its bloody aftermath was yet to come as little Tom Kealey played happily in the fields and hop gardens around his new home. Soon the dark clouds of war gathered as a line of men marched out of the small Kentish village to join the thousands of others who were dug deep and dying in the clinging mud of the Somme.Growing into manhood, Tom developed a natural ability to handle a gun as a gamekeeper in the woods. Little did he realise how it would be put to good use when he enlisted into the "Gunners". With the Second World War looming, he would be sent to France as the German forces pushed the British army towards the blood-soaked beaches of Dunkirk.In a new theatre of war, the enemy fought harder and were more vicious than anything Tom had experienced before. Their cruelty was beyond belief and imagination.As vengeance and hatred burned deep in his heart, the welcoming flame of a candle flickered thousands of miles away in a cottage window in Kent.After all, Tom had written to his mother to tell her he would be home for Christmas.

Sarah never realised how much her life would change when her Huguenot husband died and together with her son, Jabez, she would have to leave their lodgings in the weavers loft at Spitalfield and head for the village of her youth. Jabez was a studious young man and whilst she worried about the privations that lay ahead, Sarah never realised the extent of the violence which would be unleashed upon them.Nathan Larkin was apprenticed to his father, the village blacksmith, learning the secrets of forging iron, when one dark evening he found Sarah and Jabez close to death. He didn't realise the chain of events that would follow when he extended the hand of friendship on that bleak night and the effect it would have on all their lives in the years to come

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