Esta serie se sumerge en el corazón del mayor conflicto de la historia moderna. Cada entrega cubre un año de la Gran Guerra, ofreciendo una mirada inmersiva a los campos de batalla y las vidas de quienes se vieron afectados. Revela maniobras estratégicas, sacrificios personales y el inmenso costo humano de una lucha global. Experimente las pruebas de quienes enfrentaron la guerra y explore su legado perdurable.
On a sunny afternoon in late June 1914, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley learns that his parents have died in an automobile crash. Josephs brother, an officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father had been en route to London with a mysterious secret document allegedly possessing the power to disgrace England and destroy the civilized world. Now, that explosive paper has vanished, and Joseph is left to wonder: How had it fallen into the hands of his father, a quiet countryman? But Joseph is soon burdened with a second tragedy: the shocking murder of his most gifted student, who was loved and admired by everyone. Or so it appeared. And as Englands seamless peace begins to crack, the distance between the murder of an Austrian archduke and the death of a brilliant student grows shorter every day.
In the firmament of great historical novelists, Anne Perry is a star of the greatest magnitude. First there were her acclaimed Victorian mysteries, sparkling with passion and suspense. Now readers have embraced this bestselling new series of World War I novels–which juxtapose the tranquil life of the English countryside with the horrors of war. By April of 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warfare is impartially cutting down England’s youth. On one of his rescue forays into no-man’s-land, Joseph finds the body of an arrogant war correspondent, Eldon Prentice. A nephew of the respected General Owen Cullingford, Prentice was despised for his prying attempts to elicit facts that would turn public opinion against the war. Most troublesome to Joseph, Prentice has been killed not by German fire but, apparently, by one of his own compatriots. What Englishman hated Prentice enough to kill him? Joseph is afraid he may know, and his sister, Judith, who is General Cullingford’s driver and translator, harbors her own fearful suspicions. Meanwhile, Joseph and Judith’s brother, Matthew, an intelligence officer in London, continues his quiet search for the sinister figure they call the Peacemaker, who, like Eldon Prentice, is trying to undermine the public support for the struggle–and, as the Reavley family has good reason to believe, is in fact at the heart of a fantastic plot to reshape the entire world. An intimate of kings, the Peacemaker kills with impunity, and his dark shadow stretches from the peaceful country lanes of Cambridgeshire to the twin hells of Ypres and Gallipoli. In this mesmerizing series, Anne Perry has found a subject worthy of her gifts. Illuminating the murderous conflict whose violence still resounds in our consciousness–as well as the souls of men and women who lived it–Shoulder the Sky is a taut, inspiring masterpiece.
Primera Guerra Mundial, marzo de 1916. Joseph Reavley queda herido de gravedad en un intento por rescatar a un compañero de combate. Enviado a su casa en Cambridgeshire, Joseph se enfrenta a una lenta y dolorosa recuperación marcada por sus turbadoras vivencias bélicas. La visita inesperada de un amigo, que le habla de un invento que podría neutralizar el efecto devastador de los submarinos alemanes, y el asesinato, ocurrido días más tarde, de uno de los científicos involucrados en la investigación, demuestra que alguien está filtrando información confidencial al enemigo. Joseph requerirá la ayuda de su hermano Matthew –agente de los servicios secretos británicos– para iniciar una investigación.
