The absolutist /

Boyne, John, 1971-

The absolutist / John Boyne. - London : Black Swan, 2012. - 432 p. ; 20 cm.

Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2011.

September, 1919. 20-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War but in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor.

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Friendship--Fiction.
Soldiers--Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front--Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--Conscientious objectors--Fiction.


General.

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