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Gold Medal Winner from the Military Writers Society of America! This harrowing journey through World War I begins aboard the RMS Lusitania and ends on the edge of the world. For the Scots-American McReynolds brothers, World War I began with a German torpedo that slammed into the Lusitania. Despite frantic rescue efforts, they watch their family drown in front of their eyes. Having escaped the doomed ship in frigid waters off Ireland, they are rescued by four young Irishmen and together they vow to strike back in the war that was cutting a bloody swath through Europe in 1915. Searching for a unit that was bound to see action, they enlist with the vaunted Seaforth Highlanders, a Scottish regiment with a fearsome reputation. Soon they are tossed into the bloody cauldron of Gallipoli, where they must learn to fight and struggle to survive in one of the most ill-conceived and brutal campaigns of the war. Under a baking Aegean sun, surrounded by dead and maimed comrades, and facing a brutal and determined enemy sworn to Jihad, the brothers discover crucial differences in their reactions to the carnage of infantry combat. In the reeking, bloody trenches of Gallipoli, war becomes a very ugly school--where few live long enough to graduate. Praise for A Distant Field: "[The] attention to detail, sentence-for-sentence, is stunning, and really builds the world." -Cornerstones "The author has managed to avoid many of the pitfalls of a debut author and is to be commended....Overall this is a highly promising text...." --Jefferson Franklin "...a really imaginative and convincing plot...a great eye for period and military detail....an impressive achievement." --Wade & Co

About the Author :
RJ MacDonald grew up in a small coastal fishing village in Scotland. He crossed the Atlantic and attended Cate School before studying both military history and social science at UC Berkeley, where his dissertation professor was Stephen Ambrose (Band of Brothers). After graduating with two BAs, he enlisted in the U.S. Marines as a reservist. Boot camp in San Diego went well for five days, until the drill instructors read his personnel file and discovered not only a 'Berkeley hippy freak infiltrating their Marine Corps, ' but also one with an accent. You speak funny, Private. Are you Russian? Meritoriously promoted twice, he served in a helicopter support squadron and as a marksmanship instructor before returning back to Scotland to complete two masters degrees and joining the Royal Air Force Reserves. You speak funny, sir. Are you Canadian? He deployed as an intelligence officer with a helicopter detachment during the war in Iraq, and then again to Cyprus during the conflict in Libya. Now a director within a small research company, he also serves on a volunteer lifeboat crew tasked with a 24/7 all-weather search and rescue role in some of the roughest seas in the world. He lives with his wife, three children, and a very cute but equally stupid cocker spaniel in the East Neuk of Fife, where he grew up. He can often be found tapping away on his laptop while waiting for various after-school clubs to finish. A Distant Field is his debut novel.

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Praise for A Distant Field: "[The] attention to detail, sentence-for-sentence, is stunning, and really builds the world." -Cornerstones "The author has managed to avoid many of the pitfalls of a debut author and is to be commended....Overall this is a highly promising text...." --Jefferson Franklin "...a really imaginative and convincing plot...a great eye for period and military detail....an impressive achievement." --Wade & Co


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781944353209
  • Publisher: Warriors Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Warriors Publishing Group
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 358
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 456 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1944353208
  • Publisher Date: 11 Nov 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Novel of World War I
  • Width: 133 mm


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