From Eden to Babylon - Messenger, Nigel

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Résumé :
A filthy barge arrives in Basra full of near-dead British soldiers, wounded, starved and dehydrated without basic care and medicine. A British officer and his team take the poor men off the barge and onto a steamer headed for Bombay and then they are taken by train to a hospital in Northern India. He recognises one badly wounded man who had saved his life in South Africa in the horrendous Boer War some years before. When this man's sister travels to India from England to nurse him back to health, she falls for his rescuer and they marry after the war in Murree. World War One action takes place in Mesopotamia, India and South Africa and follows the adventures of members of a family who work and fight together and finally reunite at the family wedding.

Biographie:
Nigel Messenger is a hotelier who was inspired to write his first novel, The Miracle of Michmash, having heard about an extraordinary battle in the Old Testament which was mirrored in a WW1 battle in Palestine. He has been working with the Poppy Factory for almost 30 years, supporting wounded, injured and sick veterans into employment in the UK. He is now writing his fourth novel, which also has a WW1 theme.