Sergeant Jack
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2025
Troubador Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-83628-033-0 (ISBN)
Troubador Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-83628-033-0 (ISBN)
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A historical novel partially based on historical fact. A romance interwoven around historical facts and set during the First World War.
Jack was born around 1880, the result of an adulterous one-night stand, the perpetrator of which was facially scarred for life by her husband.
After the family disintegrated, Jack went to Croydon to live with his upmarket prostitute aunt. Later, while working in a local butcher’s, he promised to take one of his customers to a local dance and they became very fond of each other, but, during World War One, as a Sergeant, he saw her killed by a German sniper.
Soon, wounded on the Somme, Jack came to the attention of a statuesque and sensuous young nurse, but his school friend, Michael, gets killed in the same battle and it falls to Jack to bury him. He promises Michael that he will live a life for them both.
Seriously wounded at Arras City, Jack is repatriated home in time to see his English fiancée die under the hooves of a horse-drawn bus – after which he remains in a drunken stupor for months. However, after a vision of Michael who reminds Jack of his promise to live for them both, he asks the nurse from the field hospital to marry him, and they live out an idyllic life together.
Jack was born around 1880, the result of an adulterous one-night stand, the perpetrator of which was facially scarred for life by her husband.
After the family disintegrated, Jack went to Croydon to live with his upmarket prostitute aunt. Later, while working in a local butcher’s, he promised to take one of his customers to a local dance and they became very fond of each other, but, during World War One, as a Sergeant, he saw her killed by a German sniper.
Soon, wounded on the Somme, Jack came to the attention of a statuesque and sensuous young nurse, but his school friend, Michael, gets killed in the same battle and it falls to Jack to bury him. He promises Michael that he will live a life for them both.
Seriously wounded at Arras City, Jack is repatriated home in time to see his English fiancée die under the hooves of a horse-drawn bus – after which he remains in a drunken stupor for months. However, after a vision of Michael who reminds Jack of his promise to live for them both, he asks the nurse from the field hospital to marry him, and they live out an idyllic life together.
John David Harris, M.Ed. trained as an Art Teacher during which time he regularly exhibited in the Sussex Artists Exhibition held annually at Brighton Royal Pavilion. He obtained a master’s degree before leaving education to become a landlord so he could pursue his painting and writing career. He has previously published Beyond the Cattle Arch (Matador, 2018) and Straw Hat (Matador, 2020). He lives in West Sussex.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Market Harborough |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83628-033-5 / 1836280335 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83628-033-0 / 9781836280330 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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