She is intrepid, determined, and resourceful, undaunted by harsh conditions, horrific situations, or the soldiers’ firm conviction that a lady just doesn’t belong there.
He writes often to Amy-until he is reported missing in action in August 1918.Īfter the war ends, she sets out to find him, unprepared for the unimaginable devastation of the battlefields where the British Army is still working to recover and identify the remains of tens of thousands of men. Soon after, he enlists in the British Army (despite his nonviolent principles) and is sent to fight in the trenches, first in Belgium and then in France, serving under a heroic and charismatic commander who inspires almost fanatical loyalty from his troops. Their clandestine, whirlwind romance will send them both down paths more difficult and dangerous than either could ever have imagined.Īmy’s snobby, conventional family deeply disapproves of Edward, and she hesitates to accept his marriage proposal for fear they will cut her off. In Oxford in the spring of 1916, Amy Vanneck, the sheltered only daughter of wealthy, well-connected, but stifling parents, chances to meet Edward Haslam, a gentle music teacher who grew up an orphan. 'Atmospheric and meticulously researched, Two Storm Wood sheds light on the horrors and the trauma that continued even after the Armistice.In Two Storm Wood, Philip Gray, who has published several thrillers and novels of historical suspense under other names, creates a moving love story hidden inside a harrowing and psychologically observant historical thriller. As the dark truth leaches out, both he and Amy are drawn into the hunt for a psychopath, one for whom the atrocity at Two Storm Wood is not an end, but a beginning. It soon becomes clear that what Mackenzie has uncovered is a war crime of inhuman savagery. She heads to France, determined to discover what became of the man she loved.
Amy Vanneck's fiance is one soldier lost amongst many, but she cannot accept that his body may never be found. His task is upended when a gruesome discovery is made beneath the ruins of a German strongpoint. Captain Mackenzie, a survivor of the war, cannot yet bring himself to go home.įirst he must see that his fallen comrades are recovered and laid to rest. Special battalions now face the dangerous task of gathering up the dead for mass burial. On the desolate battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent.
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