A Green Bough

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>The unwilling adventures of an American tourist in an Irish regiment of the British army</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 2 of 4</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Daniel Wyndham misguided American tourist has seen the Royal Munster Fusiliers - the Dirty Shirts - go down into the mud of the Western Front.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now in the fields of County Cork he watches a new army being improvised: an Irish army.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wyndham's romantic dreams still have breath left in them and to him it seems that the heroes of legend will march once more.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But fighting for Ireland is taking on a new meaning and 1916 will prove a bad year to be an Irishman in the King's uniform.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>***</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>John Ware used to work in the construction industry until they made him stop. He now lectures in history in his home town of Cork. </span><u style=color: rgba(70 120 134 1)>www.pagedor.co.uk/johnware</u></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>***</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>...meticulous moving and often very humorous.... An abundance of delightful unforgettable ideas and endearing characters. - </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Historical Novel Review</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Issue 101 (August 2022)</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ingenious well-written characterised by apt quotation and a sure touch for military detail this is literature in the making fun to read as it emerges hot from the press.</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Irish Sword</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Issue </span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>133 (Summer 2022)</span></p><p></p>