By the Green of the Spring
1st Edition
Published on 12. May 2015
599 pages
978-1-4482-1479-2 (ISBN)
Description
1918 dawns desolate over the fields of Flanders. Decimated by the worst war the world has ever seen, neither British nor German troops can break the deadlock of the trenches. After four years of murderous stalemate, peace seems buried for ever. But finally, one by one, the guns fall silent...
By the Green of the Spring relives the last terrible months of the Great War and the uneasy, exhausted peace which followed it. From the North-West Frontier to the war in France and the civil war in Ireland, John Masters follows the fortunes of four Kent families - the Cates, the Rownlands, the Strattons and the Gorses - through the cataclysm that ended the golden Edwardian dream for ever.
By the Green of the Spring, first published in 1981, is the third, self-contained volume of the Loss of Eden trilogy, a magnificent conclusion to an enthralling epic of war and peace by a major contemporary novelist.
By the Green of the Spring relives the last terrible months of the Great War and the uneasy, exhausted peace which followed it. From the North-West Frontier to the war in France and the civil war in Ireland, John Masters follows the fortunes of four Kent families - the Cates, the Rownlands, the Strattons and the Gorses - through the cataclysm that ended the golden Edwardian dream for ever.
By the Green of the Spring, first published in 1981, is the third, self-contained volume of the Loss of Eden trilogy, a magnificent conclusion to an enthralling epic of war and peace by a major contemporary novelist.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4482-1479-2 (9781448214792)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
John Masters was born in Calcutta in 1914. He was educated in England but in 1934 he returned to India and joined the Fourth Prince of Wales' Own Gurkha Rifles, then served on the North-West Frontier. He saw active service in Waziristan in 1937 and, after the outbreak of war, in Iraq, Syria and Persia. In 1944 he joined General Wingate's Chindits in Burma. He fought at the Singu Bridgehead, the capture of Mandalay, at Toungoo and on the Mawchi Road. John Masters retired from the Army in 1948 as Lieutenant-Colonel with the DSO and an OBE. Shortly afterwards he settled in the USA where he turned to writing and soon had articles and short stories published in many well-known American magazines. He also wrote several novels and was especially praised for his trilogy of the Great War: Now, God be Thanked, Heart of the War and By the Green of the Spring. He died in 1983 in New Mexico.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Aftermath
- 1 January 1, 1918
- 2 The Western Front: Wednesday, February 13,1918
- 3 Rawalpindi, Punjab, India: late February, 1918
- 4 France: mid March, 1918
- 5 London and Kent: Thursday, March 14,1918
- 6 The Somme: Thursday, March 21,19180 - the Vernal Equinox
- 7 The West Swin, Thames Estuary: Thursday, April 18,1918
- 8 Hedlington, Walstone: Wednesday, May 8,1918
- 9 Walstone: Wednesday, May 22,1918
- 10 The Western Front: Thursday, August 1,
- 11 The Western Front: August, September, 1918
- 12 Hedlington and Walstone: late September, 1918
- 13 Walstone., Kent: Sunday, October 13,1918
- 14 London: October, 1918
- 15 The Western Front: November, 1918
- 16 Armistice Day, Monday, November 11,
- 17 To the 'Khaki Election', December 14,1918
- 18 London and Kent: January, 1919
- 19 Flanders: January, 1919
- 20 London: February, 1919
- 21 The United States of America: March,
- 22 Hedlington, Kent: April, 1919
- 23 North-West Frontier, India: May, 1919
- 24 The Great Air and Road Races: June, 1919
- 25 Dublin: Friday, July 4, 1919
- 26 Cologne, Paris, London: August, 1919
- 27 Vale of Scarrow, Kent: September, 1919
- 28 Fort Defiance, Arizona: Thursday, September 25,1919
- 29 England and Germany: October, 1919
- 30 Hedlington: Wednesday, October 22,1919
- 31 Hassanpore, India: October, 1919
- 32 England, Arizona: November, 1919
- 33 England: December, 1919
- 34 Kent: Christmas, 1919
- Family Tree
- A Note on the Author
- Also by the Author
- eCopyright
