| A Cross for Two Graves Contributor(s): Thrush, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798708257550 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $14.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (0.57 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "A penetrating perspective on war's psychological cost ..."In 2011, four men and one woman undertake a reluctant search for wreckage of a downed military helicopter and what may have been aboard it. Nobody can be sure what they will find. Now, expertly weaving re-creation of factual historical events into a gripping fictional account of one quest to find a crashed Rhodesian aircraft and the remains of those flying into battle aboard it, author Alan Thrush delivers a tantalising subtext: the complexities of post-traumatic stress and its impact. The result is a moving story of the long-lasting effects of modern warfare on soldiers - their eternal burden woven into a tapestry of love and war, lifelong friendships and debts of honour forged in battle. As the narrative ratchets back and forth in time between the glass-and-steel skylines of present-day London and Johannesburg and the harsh, unforgiving bush of the central African battleground, the unearthing of buried memory begins to claw at mental scar tissue carefully cultivated to mask personal pain, while the search itself threatens to reveal a dangerous truth. For aboard that helicopter on the day of its destruction was a captured guerrilla - a prisoner taken in combat and a man who survived it to become a leading figure on the playing fields of today's politics. His ties to his former enemy must be protected ... at all costs. 'Atmospheric. I could not put it down.' James Mitchell - books editor and author of Tartan on the Veld 'A penetrating perspective of the psychological cost of modern warfare.' - book reviewer 'Reveals more truths than would any mere historical account of the bush war.' - book reviewer 'A compelling combination of intrigue, mystery, and dark memory from a hard-fought war.' - book reviewer If you enjoy Sebastian Faulks or Len Deighton, you'll like this one. To read the first two chapters, click on the book cover. Genres: psychological novel; literary fiction; political & military fiction; war; mystery - Africa, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe |