A Foreign Field

A Foreign Field
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This edition does not include illustrations.A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War. From the Number 1 bestselling author of ‘Agent ZigZag’ and ‘Operation Mincemeat’.Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines at the height of the fighting on the Western Front in August 1914. Unable to get back to their units, they shelter in the tiny French village of Villeret, where they are fed, clothed and protected by the villagers, including the local matriarch Madame Dessenne, the baker and his wife.The self-styled leader of the band of fugitives, Private Robert Digby, falls in love with the 20-year-old daughter of one of his protectors, and in November 1915 she gives birth to a baby girl. The child is just six months old when someone betrays the men to the Germans. They are captured, tried as spies and summarily condemned to death.Using the testimonies of the daughter, the villagers, detailed town hall records and, most movingly, the soldiers’ last letters, Ben Macintyre reconstructs an extraordinary story of love, duplicity and shame – ultimately seeking to discover through decades of village rumour the answer to the question, ‘Who betrayed Private Digby and his men?’ In this new updated edition the mystery is finally solved.This edition does not include illustrations.

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Ben Macintyre. A Foreign Field

A FOREIGN FIELD. A True Story of Love and Betrayal in the Great War. BEN MACINTYRE

Table of Contents

Note on Sources

Prologue

CHAPTER ONE. The Angels of Mons

CHAPTER TWO. Villeret, 1914

CHAPTER THREE. Born to the Smell of Gunpowder

CHAPTER FOUR. Fugitives

CHAPTER FIVE. Behind the Trenches

CHAPTER SIX. Battle Lines

CHAPTER SEVEN. Rendezvous

CHAPTER EIGHT. Aren’t Those Things Flowers?

CHAPTER NINE. Sparks of Life

CHAPTER TEN. The Englishman’s Daughter

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Brave British Soldier

CHAPTER TWELVE. Remember Me

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Somme

CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Wasteland

CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Villeret, 1930

EPILOGUE. Villeret, 1999

Acknowledgements

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PUBLIC AND INSTITUTIONAL RECORDS. FRANCE

ENGLAND

Notes

About the Author

Also by the Author

Index

Copyright

About the Publisher

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In memory of Angus Macintyre

Note on Sources

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Also by the Author

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