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Passchendaele Calling
They made a vow; never to leave anyone behind…
Three generations of a military family have fought in the same regiment, in three different wars, in three separate centuries.
Colour Sergeant Wes Gardiner, fights in Helmand Province in 2009. Wounded in action, what seems like divine intervention assists his recovery from gunshot wounds that should have been far more serious than they were. Once stable, he is taken to England for recuperation. There, he meets psychologist Debra Tonks. During Debra overseeing his recovery from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, they begin to fall in love, and Wes starts to experience some powerfully, vivid dreams.
At first, they are attributed to his PTSD, but it soon becomes clear they are not simply nightmares, they are a ghostly memory of a life that Wes had never lived.
Someone is trying to tell Wes something, someone needs his help to keep an age old promise they made, and so the journey of a lifetime happens, as Wes and Debra travel to Passchendaele via Ypres and Vitoria to try and uncover the lives of Wes’s forefathers, his great-great grandfather, Sergeant Henry Gardiner who fought in 1917 at Polygon Wood, Passchendaele and Corporal Jedidiah Gardiner, who battled in 1812 in Salamanca and Vitoria, Spain.
For Wes to find peace, he knows that he must keep the promise that his ancestors made centuries ago; should any man fall, they will never leave anyone behind.
Three generations of a military family have fought in the same regiment, in three different wars, in three separate centuries.
Colour Sergeant Wes Gardiner, fights in Helmand Province in 2009. Wounded in action, what seems like divine intervention assists his recovery from gunshot wounds that should have been far more serious than they were. Once stable, he is taken to England for recuperation. There, he meets psychologist Debra Tonks. During Debra overseeing his recovery from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, they begin to fall in love, and Wes starts to experience some powerfully, vivid dreams.
At first, they are attributed to his PTSD, but it soon becomes clear they are not simply nightmares, they are a ghostly memory of a life that Wes had never lived.
Someone is trying to tell Wes something, someone needs his help to keep an age old promise they made, and so the journey of a lifetime happens, as Wes and Debra travel to Passchendaele via Ypres and Vitoria to try and uncover the lives of Wes’s forefathers, his great-great grandfather, Sergeant Henry Gardiner who fought in 1917 at Polygon Wood, Passchendaele and Corporal Jedidiah Gardiner, who battled in 1812 in Salamanca and Vitoria, Spain.
For Wes to find peace, he knows that he must keep the promise that his ancestors made centuries ago; should any man fall, they will never leave anyone behind.
317 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 25, 2017
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August 30, 2017
Passchendaele Calling Review
A quite beautiful, compelling and topical story 100 years on from this terrible battle. The main characters living and dead interact so well. A great and believable ending so poignant when you think of those memorials to the missing in Belgium and France and the hope that though remembered that they have or can find peace.
A quite beautiful, compelling and topical story 100 years on from this terrible battle. The main characters living and dead interact so well. A great and believable ending so poignant when you think of those memorials to the missing in Belgium and France and the hope that though remembered that they have or can find peace.
March 29, 2024
This for me was one of those books, i couldn't put down. I read it in a day.
It is a book based on 250 years, of generations of the same family. It starts in Helmund Province in 2009, then visits Passchedaele in 1917. Then again goes back to the Peninsula War 1811-14.
Here the 5 times Great Grandfather makes a promise. That will affect the following generations of his family in times of war.
It is a book based on 250 years, of generations of the same family. It starts in Helmund Province in 2009, then visits Passchedaele in 1917. Then again goes back to the Peninsula War 1811-14.
Here the 5 times Great Grandfather makes a promise. That will affect the following generations of his family in times of war.
December 20, 2017
Just no
The need to suspend belief increases with the number of pages read. The premise was interesting but the execution is fatally flawed. The excessive sex passages seemed gratuitous and didn't add a thing. Dismal.
The need to suspend belief increases with the number of pages read. The premise was interesting but the execution is fatally flawed. The excessive sex passages seemed gratuitous and didn't add a thing. Dismal.
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