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Behind the Lines Author: W F MORRIS

ISBN: 9781612004136 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 314 Published: 1 September 2016 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 19.0 x 13.2 x 2.5 Description: WWI thriller adventure about a subaltern who when forced to desert exists in no man's land, and must fight to survive and escape his predicament.

'I never saw the man again, alive or dead. One will say that I saw him only for a moment, that it was misty at the time, and that even I did not recognise the features, covered as they were with grime and stubble. Yet I am sure that the taller of the two ragged civilians I saw in the chalk quarry that misty March morning of 1918 was that Lieutenant Peter Rawley, R. F.A., who the official records stated was killed near Arras the previous autumn.'

Behind the Lines is a thriller that follows on from the success of W. F. Morris's first novel, Bretherton: Khaki or Field-Grey? Morris is again concerned with questions of identity, allegiance, chance, concealment and self-discovery. A subaltern is forced to flee when he accidentally kills an overbearing, taunting fellow officer: appearances are all against him and he does not trust to trench justice. He becomes a fugitive and has to join forces with other deserters, lost soldiers and outlaws in a hand-to-mouth existence in the no man's land between opposin...

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