Announcing Release of "A Salient in Flanders: Love and loss at the Western Front; a novel of the Great War" by Alan Thrush

Alicante, Spain - October 23, 2022 - Announcing the release of A Salient in Flanders: Love and loss at the Western Front; a novel of the Great War" by Alan Thrush. A stand-alone historical fiction of World War I, the book is "A devastating portrayal of war's waste and cost, unique in its descriptions of the humanity of the individual and the frailty of the human psyche in the face of battle."

To the literature of the Great War battlefields is added an unforgettable journey back in time: the story of the struggle for a single French village, a meticulously researched snapshot of the Western Front of April 1918. Written in a style as ruthlessly relentless as the fighting it portrays, the narrative hurls the reader directly into the eye of the storm that was Germany's biggest-ever offensive of that war, Operation Michael, imprinting the assault vividly and indelibly upon the mind. With the British Army retreating across a ninety mile front, one point still holds firm: the village of Foncquevillers, where a single British regiment refuses to yield to a German attack by three, drawing some fifteen thousand ordinary young men into a climactic struggle for possession of a few kilometres of trench and barbed wire, the key to the outcome of the greater battle. For four days, the bloody fighting consumes all.

"Only that urge to survive - to live - had been as strong as Nettermann's love
for his sweetheart. He knew that he needed her with every nerve and sinew of his
being, with every fibre of his earthly existence."

A Salient in Flanders is a must-read for lovers of historical fiction. A stand-alone book from historical fiction writer Alan Thrush.

"Epic. The most subsuming, believable account of life in the trenches that I've ever encountered."
- Independent Reader Acclaim.

The print and ebook editions of A Salient in Flanders: Love and loss at the Western Front; a novel of the Great War" by Alan Thrush release October 23, 2022 and are available for pre-sale on Amazon.

About Alan Thrush
One-time soldier, father to a London architect and a Johannesburg businesswoman, marketing consultant and educator - Alan's wide experience of life and human nature comes through clearly in his writing. In particular, his years as an officer (decorated) with the men of a black paratroop battalion in the Zimbabwe-Rhodesian conflict placed him in a unique position to pen Of Land and Spirits, widely recognized as the defining novel of the Southern African Bush War.
Keen observation of the after-effects of that conflict on ex-combatants over several decades led to his second work, A Cross for Two Graves, a psychological novel set in present-day Europe and Africa.

A Salient in Flanders is his third work.

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Alan is mulling his next project from his home in Alicante, Spain, the country to which he moved permanently after half a century of life in Africa. Needing to be sure of what he was in for before he moved, he first walked the Iberian Peninsula from east to west, a pilgrimage of 900 kilometres.

His respect for the Spanish people and their language comes across in all interaction with him, though he readily admits that his heart will forever belong to the small city of Bulawayo, provincial capital of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, the country where he grew up.

This release was published on openPR.