Kudos to him for writing about the unknown soldiers, a subject filled with grief, as well as horror. Gray did a vast amount of research, it certainly shows in this book which is both dark and moody. It follows the volunteers whose job it was to unbury dead soldiers, attempt to identify them in whatever state of decompression they might be, and by all means, give them a proper burial. This is not a book that glamorizes the thunder of battle. I was very impressed with the research that went into Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray which, indeed, gives the reader a good idea of what those battlefields looked like. While it was a bit difficult for me to get into this book, by the time I finished it was surprisingly difficult to put down. Gray is a journalist and teacher, this is his first novel. Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray is a thriller/mystery set on the battlefields of the Somme, a few months after the Armistice of World War I.
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