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The Measure of Days

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1916 - World War I: Battle of the Somme

The war comes home to the Morlands when Ned is listed Missing at Loos. Violet puts everything at peril by her wild affair with a young artist, and Jessie goes to London to nurse in a military hospital. The quiet spring and summer of 1916 end in the violent eruption of pitched battle on the River Somme, and five Morland men are in the thick of it...

Themes
saga
Setting
London
Audience
adult
Length
long · 560 pages

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