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The Shattered Tree : A Bess Crawford Mystery Paperback - 2017
by Charles Todd
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- Title The Shattered Tree : A Bess Crawford Mystery
- Author Charles Todd
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Date 2017
- Bookseller's Inventory # G006238628XI3N00
- ISBN 9780062386281 / 006238628X
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.8 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, England
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
France, October 1918. At the foot of a tree shattered by shelling and gunfire, stretcher bearers find an exhausted officer, shivering with cold and a loss of blood from several wounds. The soldier is brought to battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's aid station, where she stabilizes him and treats his injuries before he is sent to a rear hospital. The odd thing is, the officer isn't British--he's French. But in a moment of anger and stress, he shouts at Bess in German.
When Bess reports the incident to Matron, her superior offers a ready explanation. The soldier is from Alsace-Lorraine, a province in the west where the tenuous border between France and Germany has continually shifted through history, most recently in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, won by the Germans. But is the wounded man Alsatian? And if he is, on which side of the war do his sympathies really lie?
Bess remains uneasy--and unconvinced. If he was a French soldier, what was he doing so far from his own lines . . . and so close to where the Germans are putting up a fierce, last-ditch fight?
When the mysterious officer disappears in Paris, it's up to Bess--a soldier's daughter as well as a nurse--to find out why, even at the risk of her own life.