Captain Christopher Tietjens, a Tory gentleman of rigid honour, is running a base depot in France, drafting men to the front under constant air raids. His brilliant, vindictive wife Sylvia follows him across the Channel, determined to provoke him, and her scandal threatens to wreck what remains of his career.
The second novel of Parade’s End, one of the great modernist portraits of the First World War. Download the free EPUB.