In Pale Battalions

By Robert Goddard

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

In Pale Battalions is a 1988 mystery novel by British writer Robert Goddard, his second book. Goddard is known for twisting suspense novels built around historical secrets. In 1981, Leonora Galloway takes her daughter to the First World War memorial for her father, who supposedly died at the Somme in 1916, months before she was born. Leonora then recounts her family history, from a country estate to a murder and the war, unraveling secrets about who her parents really were.

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