By the Green of Spring - Softcover

Masters, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075150176X ISBN 13: 9780751501766

Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks, 1993

Synopsis

Part Two Of Two Parts

BY THE GREEN OF SPRING is the third and final volume in John Masters' trilogy Loss of Eden.

The trilogy, starting with NOW GOD BE THANKED, depicts the impact of WW I on British life. HEART OF WAR carries the saga into the conflict's desperate middle years. BY THE GREEN OF SPRING brings the war to its close and casts the survivors (half the war-time generation was killed) on the barren shores of peace.

"An impressive, large-scale work. Masters never shifts his focus from the human element...his storytelling gifts, convincing characterization and skilled organizaton have never been more tellingly displayed." (John Barkham Reviews)

About this title

About the Author

John Masters was born in Calcutta in 1914. He was educated in England but in 1934 he returned to India and joined the Fourth Prince of Wales' Own Gurkha Rifles, then served on the North-West Frontier. He saw active service in Waziristan in 1937 and, after the outbreak of war, in Iraq, Syria and Persia. In 1944 he joined General Wingate's Chindits in Burma. He fought at the Singu Bridgehead, the capture of Mandalay, at Toungoo and on the Mawchi Road. John Masters retired from the Army in 1948 as Lieutenant-Colonel with the DSO and an OBE. Shortly afterwards he settled in the USA where he turned to writing and soon had articles and short stories published in many well-known American magazines. He also wrote several novels and was especially praised for his trilogy of the Great War: Now, God be Thanked, Heart of the War and By the Green of the Spring. He died in 1983 in New Mexico.

Edition details

• Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075150176X
• ISBN 13: 9780751501766
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 660