Ed Jacobs is a former member of the Australian Army and a recently retired middle school teacher. This is his first book. His interest in family history led him to research his great uncle, Martin Fahey’s military service during the Great War. He has drawn from his personal first-hand knowledge of the Pozières battlefield to create a story combining the military history of his great uncle with a fictional romance.
What would you do if you were a soldier in 1916, found an enemy nurse in a Pozières cellar with constant artillery attacks and the danger of death ever present? Would you trust them not to kill you? Would you rescue them? Or leave them behind while you escaped? Many moral and ethical questions are ...