By the Hands of Men: Book One: The Old World - Softcover

Griffis, Roy M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492731420 ISBN 13: 9781492731429

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

A soldier fights for his soul in the trenches of France.  A field hospital nurse battles death every day.  Are duty and honor enough of a reason to go on in the hell of a world at war?

A mere mile from the blood-drenched front lines, Russian refugee and nurse Charlotte Braninov encounters English Lieutenant Robert Fitzgerald, who helps her save the life of another soldier.  Robert's calm, courtly manner lingers in Charlotte's mind, a comforting memory amid the deluge of suffering that surrounds her when she returns to the hospital. 

Wounded during an unauthorized mission of mercy, Robert Fitzgerald finds himself demoted to a Medical Supply Officer, where he once more meets the brave young Russian nurse.  When Charlotte volunteers to help the Lieutenant learn about his duties in this new life of service, a quiet friendship blooms and love grows in that harshest of soils, even as the war rages on.  But human cruelty and endemic disease claw at their lives.  Can love survive in a world torn by warfare, greed, and deception?

The Old World, a novel that readers are calling "deeply moving," "stunning," and "magnificent, is the first volume of the By the Hands of Men series.  Epic historical fiction by Roy M. Griffis, the saga sweeps across four continents in a gripping tale of fate, loss, redemption, and love.

A truly remarkable historical novel
- so finely rendered in period detail - that the reader becomes one with the plot and characters." - RICK FRIEDMAN, FOUNDER, THE JAMES MASON COMMUNITY BOOK CLUB

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

The By the Hands of Men series

An English Lieutenant and an immigrant Russian nurse meet scarcely a mile from the bloody trenches of World War One France, where they witness the hell that the hands of men can create.

The memory of their brief weeks together will follow them for years as they cross a world staggered by war, revolution, and duplicity.  Epic historical fiction, the saga sweeps across four continents in a gripping tale of fate, loss, redemption, and love.

About the Author:

Roy M. Griffis has written short stories, plays, poetry, novels, and screenplays. He is a past member of the Writer's Guild and a former US Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer. He currently lives in a small town in Texas with his very smart and pretty wife, along with his son, three rescue dogs, and two rescue cats. He is hard at work on two new novel series.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1492731420
• ISBN 13: 9781492731429
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298