The quotes from French Marshal Philippe Pétain on page 136, from French Marshal Joseph Joffre on page 146, and from Marc Boassan on page 198 are taken from The Price of Glory by Alistair Home. The quote from Isaac Rosenberg on page 153 and the Lafayette Escadrille song excerpted on pages 232 are taken from Voices from the Great War by Peter Vansittart. The quote from Wilfred Owen on page 177 is taken from The First World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert. The quote from C. Miles on page 204 is taken from Lyn Macdonald’s 1914-1918: Voices & Images of the Great War, as is the quote from W. H. Shaw on page 256. The information on page 260 that more than three thousand British veterans of World War I were still confined to mental asylums on the eve of World War II is taken from Macdonald’s The Roses of No Man’s Land. The quote from Herbert Essame on page 222 is taken from The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell. And finally, the quote from Robert Graves on page 335 is taken from his book Goodbye to All That.
Other important books include Make the Kaiser Dance by Henry Berry; The War to End All Wars by Edward M. Coffman; The World War One Source Book by Philip J. Haythornthwaite; All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, and The Doughboys by Laurence Stallings.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jonathan Hull spent ten years as an award-winning correspondent at Time magazine, including three as Jerusalem bureau chief. The best-selling author of The Distance from Normandy and The Devoted, he lives in Sausalito, California.
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THE DEVOTED
From wartime Italy to the American West, Jonathan Hull takes readers on a heartrending passage through the lives of three families torn by history and bound by an unshakeable - and at times forbidden - devotion.
Ryan Brooks never forgot the powerful hands that pulled him from the wreckage of his parents’ station wagon that summer in 1960 when he was ten and his childhood came to a fiery end during a family vacation. Thirty years later, Ryan returns to Wyoming to thank the dying rancher for saving the life he is still trying to be worthy of. The chilling sight of Mike O’Donnell’s deeply scarred hands is just the beginning of Ryan’s journey as he soon finds himself caught between the rancher’s captivating - and married - daughter, Shannon, and his mysterious Italian wife, Alessandra.
When Mike’s deathbed confession sets Ryan on a search for the truth of what really happened the day his parents died, he unearths a long-buried secret that leads to a mountain cave in Northern Italy and Alessandra’s dangerous love affair with a haunted young German soldier. As past and present collide in an intricately woven story of love and redemption across generations and continents, Ryan discovers that the answers he seeks are inscribed deep in the hearts of those whose lives - and courage - he must measure against his own.
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Table of Contents
PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
PART FOUR
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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