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Book Description
In the early months of 1919, Captain Ricard Villier is recalled from duty in the Caribbean, where he has served out a quiet Great War. He is despatched to the old Western Front to take charge of clearing up part of the battlefield around a village called Pericard. He finds himself in a devasted world he doesn't understand in which the living spend their lives dwelling on the dead. He meets Celine, who has come to the Front to take her husband's body home. As he becomes involved in her struggle to fulfil her husband's last wish, Ricard finds himself also drawn closer to the world of the dead, which is made up of thousands of unlived lives.
From the Author
I think I was always going to write something about the First World War, ever since I visited Flanders at the age of sixteen. Unknown Soldiers isn't a conventional war book though, in the sense that the fighting has been over for three months when the story begins. It's more about what happens after war - the effects that it has on people and societies once they've found time to realise what's happened to them. As a result, although Unknown Soldiers is about war, it's also a love story and about the ways people find to recover, or persuade themselves that they have recovered.
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