The Shattered Tree A Bess Crawford Mystery
eBook - 2016
World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldier's background—and uncover his true loyalties—in this thrilling and atmospheric entry in the bestselling "vivid period mystery series" (New York Times Book Review).At the foot of a tree shattered by shelling and gunfire, stretcher-bearers find an exhausted officer, shivering with cold and a loss of blood from several wounds. The soldier is brought to battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's aid station, where she stabilizes him and treats his injuries before he is sent to a rear hospital. The odd thing is, the officer isn't British—he's French. But in a moment of anger and stress, he shouts at Bess in German.When... Bess reports the incident to Matron, her superior offers a ready explanation. The soldier is from Alsace-Lorraine, a province in the west where the tenuous border between France and Germany has continually shifted through history, most recently...
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HarperCollins
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- English
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File Size | 969 MB |
ISBN | 9780062386298 |
Release Date | 8/30/2016 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B0191FR6JW |
Release Date | 8/30/2016 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
File Size | 1 GB |
ISBN | 9780062386298 |
Release Date | 8/30/2016 |