EAN: 9781906050078
Author: L.R. White
Format: Hardcover
Year: 2007
Publisher: Melrose Books
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Based on theme about fate and its effect on the characters, who are linked together by a brass cigarette lighter, given by Major Tom Davies to his Russian sweetheart, Anna, in 1918. This book deals with two World Wars in a subtle way, and informative details of the individual lives of soldiers and civilians are highlighted. Publisher Description
Leslie White begins his book during civil strife in Russia as the First World War closes and with references to that war, picks up the story proper at the start of World War Two. The story spans seven decades in six vastly different countries. This book's theme is all about enigmatic fate and its effect on the characters, who are linked together by a brass cigarette lighter, given by Major Tom Davies to his Russian sweetheart, Anna, in 1918. Anna passes it on to her son who gives it to a Jerseywoman. The tale comes together when a Welsh nurse named Angelina, the woman's daughter, realises that the lighter is the thread connecting the generations. The two World Wars are dealt with in a sensitive and subtle way, and informative details of the individual lives of soldiers and civilians are highlighted as are the ways by which ordinary people coped with war, with separation, with love and with loss. This haunting story remains in the mind long after the book is replaced upon the shelf.
