No Graves as Yet (World War I Series, Novel 1)
- 416 pages
- 15 hours of reading
NO GRAVES AS YET is the utterly compelling first of a five-novel sequence that is a searing, ambitious and masterly portrait of England through the First World War.
World War I Series
This series plunges into the heart of modern history's greatest conflict. Each installment covers a year of the Great War, offering an immersive look at the battlefields and the lives of those impacted. It reveals strategic maneuvers, personal sacrifices, and the immense human cost of a global struggle. Experience the trials of those who faced the war and explore its enduring legacy.
Recommended Reading Order
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Shoulder the Sky
- 311 pages
- 11 hours of reading
In the firmament of great historical novelists, Anne Perry is a star of the greatest magnitude. First there were her acclaimed Victorian mysteries, sparkling with passion and suspense. Now readers have embraced this bestselling new series of World War I novels–which juxtapose the tranquil life of the English countryside with the horrors of war. By April of 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warfare is impartially cutting down England’s youth. On one of his rescue forays into no-man’s-land, Joseph finds the body of an arrogant war correspondent, Eldon Prentice. A nephew of the respected General Owen Cullingford, Prentice was despised for his prying attempts to elicit facts that would turn public opinion against the war. Most troublesome to Joseph, Prentice has been killed not by German fire but, apparently, by one of his own compatriots. What Englishman hated Prentice enough to kill him? Joseph is afraid he may know, and his sister, Judith, who is General Cullingford’s driver and translator, harbors her own fearful suspicions. Meanwhile, Joseph and Judith’s brother, Matthew, an intelligence officer in London, continues his quiet search for the sinister figure they call the Peacemaker, who, like Eldon Prentice, is trying to undermine the public support for the struggle–and, as the Reavley family has good reason to believe, is in fact at the heart of a fantastic plot to reshape the entire world. An intimate of kings, the Peacemaker kills with impunity, and his dark shadow stretches from the peaceful country lanes of Cambridgeshire to the twin hells of Ypres and Gallipoli. In this mesmerizing series, Anne Perry has found a subject worthy of her gifts. Illuminating the murderous conflict whose violence still resounds in our consciousness–as well as the souls of men and women who lived it–Shoulder the Sky is a taut, inspiring masterpiece.
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Angels in the Gloom (World War I Series, Novel 3)
- 375 pages
- 14 hours of reading
ANGELS IN THE GLOOM is the third novel in Anne Perry's insightful and hard- hitting quintet charting the English experience of the First World War
- 4
At Some Disputed Barricade (World War I Series, Novel 4)
- 452 pages
- 16 hours of reading
The fourth powerful novel in Anne Perry's World War One quintet
- 5
We Shall Not Sleep (World War I Series, Novel 5)
- 375 pages
- 14 hours of reading
The powerful and tragic final novel in Anne Perry's World War One quintet