The Darkness and the Thunder

byStewart Binns

1915: The Great War Series

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1915. The Western Front is a wasteland of barbed wire, shell craters and mud-filled trenches. Winston Churchill, searching for a solution to the stalemate, commits the Allies to a disastrous Gallipoli campaign.

As men on both sides die in droves, miners and mill-workers work tirelessly for the war effort while families confront the broken bodies of returning soldiers. Nurses, soldiers, politicians, factory-workers and children - all are torn apart by war, and for husbands and sons, mothers and wives, the old way of life is vanishing.

About the series

2014 marked the centenary of World War One, and bestselling author Stewart Binns undertook to write a novel a year for every year of the Great War. The Great War series follows the story of five British communities; their circumstances are very different but they will all share in the tragedy that is to come.
Anyone with even a vague interest in Britain and the Great War should read Shadow of War
Celia Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill

About Stewart Binns

Stewart Binns began his professional life as an academic. He passed selection for the SAS in 1980 and served for three years before settling into a career as a schoolteacher, specialising in English and history. Later in life he began a successful career in television. He has won a BAFTA, a Grierson, an RTS and a Peabody for his documentaries.

Stewart has written two highly acclaimed historical series. Betrayal, a standalone, is his seventh novel.
Details
  • Series: The Great War #2
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781405916288
  • Length: 656 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 39mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 449g
  • Price: £17.99
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