She is not a part of the fighting but she has been close enough to see the horrors that the soldiers have to experience. I did not know that the Britannic was a sister ship to the Titanic and that she also sank.īess has experienced nursing many men injured in the fighting and watching men die of horrible wounds.
I had no knowledge of hospital ships and know little about women's roles in those conflicts. Each new book that I read about World War I or World War II leads me to new knowledge about those time periods and events. She survives, but an injury forces her return to England on leave.
The main character, Bess Crawford, is a nurse on the Britannic, a hospital ship, when it sinks. She quickly discovers that fulfilling this duty to the dead has thrust her into a maelstrom of intrigue and murder that will endanger her own life and test her courage as not even war has.For me, the main attraction of this book is the picture it gives us of life during World War I in England. Unsettled by this, Bess is about to take her leave when sudden tragedy envelops her. Neither his mother nor his brother Timothy seems to think it has any significance. When Bess arrives at the Graham house in Kent, Jonathan Graham listens to his brother's last wishes with surprising indifference. It is some months before she can carry out this duty, and when she's next in England, she herself is recovering from a wound. Something rests heavily on his conscience, and to give him a little peace as he dies, she promises to deliver a message to his brother. On one voyage, Bess grows fond of the young, gravely wounded Lieutenant Arthur Graham. At the outbreak of World War I, she followed in his footsteps and volunteered for the nursing corps, serving from the battlefields of France to the doomed hospital ship Britannic. Growing up in India, she learned the importance of responsibility, honor, and duty from her officer father. Independent-minded Bess Crawford's upbringing is far different from that of the usual upper-middle-class British gentlewoman. From the brilliantly imaginative New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd comes an unforgettable new character in an exceptional new series England, 1916.
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