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A Light Beyond the Trenches
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Based on the true story of the first school to train guide dogs for the blind, USA Today best-selling author Alan Hlad’s latest novel is a fascinating, poignant and life-affirming tale of heroism and resilience in World War I....
By April 1916, the fervour that accompanied war’s outbreak has faded. In its place is a grim reality. Throughout Germany, essentials are rationed. Hope, too, is in short supply. Anna Zeller, whose fiancé, Bruno, is fighting on the Western Front, works as a nurse at an overcrowded hospital in Oldenburg, trying to comfort men broken in body and spirit. But during a visit from Dr Stalling, the director of the Red Cross Ambulance Dogs Association, she witnesses a rare spark of optimism: as a German shepherd guides a battle-blinded soldier over a garden path, Dr Stalling is inspired with an idea - to train dogs as companions for sightless veterans.
Anna convinces Dr Stalling to let her work at his new guide dog training school. Some of the dogs that arrive are themselves veterans of war, including Nia, a German shepherd with trench-damaged paws. Anna brings the ailing Nia home and secretly tends and trains her, convinced she may yet be the perfect guide for the right soldier. In Max Benesch, a Jewish soldier blinded by chlorine gas at the front, Nia finds her person.
War has taken Max’s sight, his fiancée and his hopes of being a composer. Yet despite all he’s given for his country, the tide of anti-Semitism at home is rising, and Max encounters it first-hand in one of the school’s trainers, who is determined to make Max fail. Still, through Anna’s prompting, he rediscovers his passion for music. But as Anna discovers more about the conflict’s escalating brutality - and Bruno’s role in it - she realises how impossible it will be for any of them to escape the war unscathed....
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- Anonymous User
- 17-01-2024
Gripping war love story
The best book I’ve listened to so far. I could listen to it all over again.
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- Kindle Customer
- 25-02-2023
A Must Read
loved it, definitely a must read. I couldn't put it down, characters are bought to life in this emotional story of Love, and loss. I know I will return to this book to read once again
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- Jennifer Robinson
- 10-02-2024
I'm a softie for dog stories
A good listen with insight into WWI horrors for German people. Poison gas, famine caused by blockade, moral culpability for atrocities, The narrator handled German dialogue in English exceptionally well, no accent, but authentic phrases.
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