By Philip Gray
In 1919 Amy Vanneck travels from England to the abandoned WWI battlefields of northern France to locate the remains of her 'missing in action' fiancé, Edward Haslam. It's here she encounters Captain Mackenzie, who has the harrowing task of digging up and identifying the fallen for burial in war graves. When a horrifying discovery is unearthed at a former German fortification, the hunt for a dangerous psychopath begins.
Two Storm Wood gives a gut-wrenching insight into the terrible realities of war. The story is so poignant it stayed with me long after I'd turned the final page. The massive loss of life and horrendous suffering in the trenches is heartbreaking. Amy's determination to lay Edward to rest never falters — her devotion shining through the devastation surrounding her. The story pulls at your heartstrings — men cut down in their prime, loss of limbs, horrific disfigurement and shell shock — but it has uplifting moments too. I thought it was an incredibly moving read told with empathy and compassion.
Two Storm Wood gives a gut-wrenching insight into the terrible realities of war. The story is so poignant it stayed with me long after I'd turned the final page. The massive loss of life and horrendous suffering in the trenches is heartbreaking. Amy's determination to lay Edward to rest never falters — her devotion shining through the devastation surrounding her. The story pulls at your heartstrings — men cut down in their prime, loss of limbs, horrific disfigurement and shell shock — but it has uplifting moments too. I thought it was an incredibly moving read told with empathy and compassion.
★★★★☆
- Paperback: 456 pages
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publication Year: 2021
- Author: Philip Gray
- Genre: Historical Fiction, Thriller, War & Military
Synopsis
1919. On the battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the task of gathering up the dead for mass burial.
Amy Vanneck's fiancé is one soldier lost amongst many. She heads to France, determined to discover what became of the man she loved.
Meanwhile, Captain Mackenzie cannot bring himself to go home until his fallen comrades are laid to rest. His task is upended when a gruesome discovery is made beneath the ruins of a German strongpoint.
It soon becomes clear that what Mackenzie has uncovered is a war crime of inhuman savagery. As the dark truth leaches out, both he and Amy are drawn into the hunt for a psychopath, one for whom the atrocity at Two Storm Wood is not an end, but a beginning.
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