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The First Casualty

The First Casualty
  • Author(s): Ben Elton
  • Location(s): Flanders, Ypres
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence,...

The Photographer of the Lost

The Photographer of the Lost
  • Author(s): Caroline Scott
  • Location(s): France, Flanders, Ypres
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1 onwards

1921 In the aftermath of war, everyone is searching for answers. Edie’s husband Francis never came home and was declared ‘missing, believed killed’. But when she receives a mysterious photograph of him in the post, hope flares and she...

The War Nurses

The War Nurses
  • Author(s): Lizzie Page
  • Location(s): Ypres
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

1914 – Two young nurses pledge to help the war effort: Mairi, a wholesome idealist hoping to leave behind her past and Elsie, a glamorous single mother with a weakness for handsome soldiers. Despite their differences, the pair become...

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