Brothers in War

'As harrowing as any story from any war' Daily MirrorBrothers in War is the immensely powerful and deeply tragic story of the Beechey brothers, and how they paid the ultimate price for King and country. All eight went to fight in the Great War on such far-flung battlefields as France, Flanders, East Africa and Gallipoli. Only three would return alive. Their wives and sweethearts were left bereft, their widowed mother Amy devastated. It is a tragedy that has remained forgotten and unmarked for nearly 90 years. Until now.Kept in a small brown case handed down by the brothers' youngest sister, Edie, were hundreds of letters sent home from the front by the Beechey boys: from heartfelt messages written from a deathbed to exasperated correspondences detailing the absurdities of life in the trench. From it all emerges the remarkable tale of one family forced to sacrifice everything. Tragic and moving, poetic in its intensity, Brothers in War reveals first-hand the catastrophe that was the Great War.'Successfully restores a human dimension to that epic slaughter' Mail on SundayWalsh, Michael is the author of 'Brothers in War', published 2008 under ISBN 9780091908843 and ISBN 0091908841.