THE GUNS ARE SILENT. THE DEAD ARE NOT.<\/b><\/p>\n
‘The world has been waiting for a worthy successor to Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong<\/i> – now Philip Gray has delivered it’ David Young, author of Stasi Child
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1919. On the battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the task of gathering up the dead for mass burial.<\/p>\n
Amy Vanneck’s fianc\u00c3\u00a9 is one soldier lost amongst many. She heads to France, determined to discover what became of the man she loved.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Captain Mackenzie cannot bring himself to go home until his fallen comrades are laid to rest. His task is upended when a gruesome discovery is made beneath the ruins of a German strongpoint.<\/p>\n
It soon becomes clear that what Mackenzie has uncovered is a war crime of inhuman savagery. As the dark truth leaches out, both he and Amy are drawn into the hunt for a psychopath, one for whom the atrocity at Two Storm Wood is not an end, but a beginning.<\/p>\n
‘An atmospheric portrayal of the pity of the war’ The Times<\/i>, Books of the Year<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In 1919, on the desolate battlefields of northern France, thousands of soldiers undertook the immense and dangerous task of gathering up the dead for mass burial. Two Storm Wood follows the stories of three British people whose lives have been affected by war in very different ways: a young woman who boldly sets out to find out what happened to her fianc\u00c3\u00a9, who went missing in action; a soldier tasked with co-ordinating the retrieval of the dead; and a detective sent to investigate what appears to be a series of murders in the empty, devastated landscape. Unmissable high-quality historical fiction of the best kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[68],"product_tag":[1353,69,207],"class_list":{"0":"post-97993","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-general-fiction","6":"product_tag-first-world-war-fiction","7":"product_tag-historical-fiction","8":"product_tag-thriller-suspense","9":"pa_book_author-gray-philip","10":"pa_cover-paperback","11":"pa_dewey-823-92-edition23","12":"pa_edition-1st-paperback-ed","13":"pa_imprint-vintage","14":"pa_language-english","15":"pa_pages-13277","16":"pa_publisher-vintage","17":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","19":"first","20":"onbackorder","21":"taxable","22":"shipping-taxable","23":"purchasable","24":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n