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Storms of War

By: Kate Williams
Narrated by: Katie Scarfe
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In the idyllic early summer of 1914, life is good for the de Witt family. German Rudolf and his aristocratic English wife, Verena, are planning the wedding of their daughter, Emmeline, while their elder son, Arthur, is studying in Paris, and Michael is just back from his first term at Cambridge. Celia, the youngest of the de Witt children, is on the brink of adulthood and secretly dreams of escaping her carefully mapped-out future and exploring the world.

But with the onslaught of war, the de Witts find themselves in danger of losing everything they hold dear. As Celia struggles to make sense of the changing world around her, she lies about her age to join the war effort and finds herself embroiled in a complex plot that puts her and those she loves in danger.

With gripping detail and brilliant empathy, Kate Williams tells the story of Celia and her family as they are shunned by a society that previously embraced them, torn apart by sorrow, and buffeted and changed by the storms of war.

©2014 Kate Williams (P)2015 Orion Publishing Group Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction War
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I thought I knew almost everything about the Great War but listening to this audible book by Kate Williams was amazing. The conditions of the ambulance drivers were horrendous as well as the shooting of innocent men who through being mentally traumatised were unable to do their duties. I could not stop listening to this book and thank Kate Williams for so much history and information shown through the lives of the de Wit family.

HISTORY STORMS OF WAR

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It was an interesting viewpoint of WWI but quite a few of the plot lines went nowhere and seemed irrelevant to the overall story.

History was interesting

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