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A Light Beyond the Trenches by Alan Hlad
A WW1 Novel of Betrayal and Resilience From the USA Today bestselling author of Churchill?s Secret Messenger comes a WWI novel based on little-known history, as four very different lives intertwine across Europe from Germany to France?a German Red Cross nurse, a Jewish pianist blinded on the battlefield, a soldier tortured by deadly secrets of his own, and his tormented French mistress. This life-affirming tale of heroism and resilience will stay with you long after turning the final page.By April 1916, the fervor that accompanied war?s outbreak has faded. In its place is a grim reality. Throughout Germany, essentials are rationed. Hope, too, is in short supply. Anna Zeller, whose fianc?, Bruno, is fighting on the western front, works as a nurse at an overcrowded hospital in Oldenburg, trying to comfort men broken in body and spirit. But during a visit from Dr. Stalling, the director of the Red Cross Ambulance Dogs Association, she witnesses a rare spark of optimism: as a German