A Salient in Flanders - Alan R M Thrush

Would-be philosopher, avid reader and writer, Alan soldiered for seven years before turning his hand to marketing and writing. He has consulted to companies responsible for some of the world's leading industrial brands. His first book, Of Land and Spirits, achieved widespread recognition as the defining novel of the Rhodesian Bush War and continues to be extensively read 25 years on. A follow-up work, A Cross for Two Graves, introduced new and very different characters to pick up the thread. A Salient in Flanders, his third novel, has been tipped as a future classic of the First World War. Its standalone sequel, Winterman's Letter, has just been published. Alan lives in the port city of Alicante, Spain.

GENRE: historical fiction

Blurb:

Day by day, the casualties mount … To the literature of the Great War battlefields is added an unforgettable journey back in time: the story of the struggle for a single French village, a meticulously researched snapshot of the Western Front of April 1918. Written in a style as ruthlessly relentless as the fighting it portrays, the narrative hurls the reader directly into the eye of the storm that was Germany’s biggest-ever offensive of that war, Operation Michael.