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Some battles you can't escape...The summer of 1917. Near Lens, France. The vaunted Vimy Ridge has been taken. Lieutenant Malcolm MacPhail has settled into his position on the divisional staff. Yet there will be no peace for him and his comrades this summer. Far from being on their last legs the enemy is fighting with fresh tenacity. The campaign near Arras grinds on. At headquarters, rivals have surfaced amongst the staff, his superiors are impossible to please, and mysterious goings-on behind the lines could explode into scandal. When Malcolm offhandedly alienates a brigadier and his adjutant, the consequences for him and his closest friend are far-reaching. Meanwhile the field-marshal's eyes have shifted north. His new offensive requires a diversion and he orders the Canadian Corps to capture the key crossroads of Lens. However a single fortified hill stands in the way. As the threats mount, Malcolm must focus on the coming battle, which could be the key to everything... ***** Gripping and authentic historical fiction. A novel of the battles of Arras and Hill 70.

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Darrell Duthie lives in the Netherlands, not far from the battlefields of the First World War. He grew up throughout Canada, but spent most of his youth in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in Calgary, Alberta where he studied Political Science & Economics, and thought briefly of joining the Navy. Instead he moved to the Netherlands to complete an MBA. After a career in the European equity markets he embarked upon a new one writing historical fiction. Visit his website www.darrellduthie.com to sign up for his mailing list, and learn more about him and his books. The Malcolm MacPhail WW1 books are numbered in CHRONOLOGICAL order: 1) A War for King and Empire (1915-1916) - 2) Vicissitudes of War (1916-1917) - 3) A Summer for War (1917) - 4) Malcolm MacPhail's Great War (1917-1918) - 5) My Hundred Days of War (1918). Each can also be read on its own.

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