In Petrograd’s Warsaw station the narrator first sees Trenchard, an awkward, earnest Englishman who has joined a Russian Red Cross unit bound for the Galician front. Through the advance, the retreat and nights among the forests, Trenchard and a Russian rival come to love the same nurse, Marie Ivanovna, and are haunted by the dark forest itself.
Drawn from Walpole’s own service with the Russian Red Cross, a rare English novel of the Eastern Front. Download the free EPUB.