New York: Poseidon Press, 1988. 296pp. Book clean. Spine firm, slightly canted, silver title there-on. Plain grey boards negligibly bumped only. Simon and Schuster's small logo stamp to lower text-block edge. Small black pen rectangle to ffep., else leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket minimally edge-creased, tiny closed tear to head. "played out against a World War I tableau of English manors and bloody Flanders killing fields, a masterly tale of lovfe amid war, buried secrets, unsolved murders, duplicitous liaisons, and mysteries within mysteries . . . " Book weight approx. 585g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, Second Impression.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good.

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Six months after her husband's sudden death, Leonora Galloway sets off for a holiday in Paris with her daughter Penelope. At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin...Six months after her husband's sudden death, Leonora Galloway sets off for a holiday in Paris with her daughter Penelope. At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin... Their journey starts with an unscheduled stop at the imposing Thiepval Memorial to the dead of the Battle of the Somme near Amiens. Amongst those commemorated is Leonora's father. The date of his death is recorded as 30th April, 1916. But Leonora wasn't born until 14th March 1917. Penelope at once supposes a simple wartime illegitimacy as the clue to her mother's unhappy childhood and the family's sundered connections with her aristocratic heritage, about which she has always known so little. But nothing could have prepared her, or the reader, for the extraordinary story that is about to unfold.

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Bookseller: Diversity Books, IOBA (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 010649
Title: IN PALE BATTALIONS
Author: Goddard, Robert
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition, Second Impression.
ISBN 10: 0671649450
ISBN 13: 9780671649456
Publisher: Poseidon Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1988
Keywords: FICTION
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction General;

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