In November I will be launching Love in War at the Rockhampton library during their Meet the Author program. So, if you are in the Rockhampton area please reserve the 25th November and come and see me, I'd like to meet you.
In “Love in War” (published
by Xlibris) author Alan Watchman creates an immersive and
touching love story that shows the heroism of nurses during the chaotic battles of World
War I.
The diaries and letters of Sister Catherine "Cissy" Black, a
Rockhampton nurse during World War I, provide the basis for this romantic
novel. Her personal story reveals insights into the hardships and suffering
endured by nurses in hospitals and soldiers wounded in the trenches of
Gallipoli. Cissy is one of thousands of nurses who volunteered and served their
country but whose personal experiences have rarely been told.
It shows how she attends to the horrific wounds of Private Michael
Fitzhubert in Egypt after he is stretchered from Quinn's Post and keeps him
alive. Typical of many nurses, she falls in love, but their relationship does
not run smoothly after he recovers in England.
“Love in War” captures the sheer
brutality of trench warfare and gives readers a whole new appreciation of the
circumstances in which nurses were employed, of their working conditions and of
the lack of recognition by the military and general population at the war's
end.
“Love in War”
By Alan Watchman
Hardcover | 6x9 in | 166 pages | ISBN 9781499033328
Softcover | 6x9 in | 166 pages | ISBN 9781499033342
E-Book | 166 pages | ISBN 9781499033373
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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