Remembrance Day. Leah Fleming

      Remembrance Day

      Leah Fleming

      

       Copyright

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      Copyright © Leah Fleming 2009

      

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction.

      The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      

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      EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2009 ISBN: 9780007343690

      Version: 2016-03-18

      Not forgetting the fifteen men of Langcliffe who never made it home.

      Who made the law that men should die in meadows?

      Who spake the word that blood should splash in lanes?

      Who gave it forth that gardens should be bone-yards?

      Who spread the hills with flesh, and blood, and brains?

      

      ‘Who Made the Law?’ Leslie Coulson

      Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

Excerpt

1 GOLDEN SUMMERS

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2 DARK DAYS

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       3 NEW WORLDS

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       4 THE RETURN

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       Remembrance Day 2000

       About the Author

       By the same author:

       About the Publisher

       Excerpt

       11 November 2000

       The ceremony is about to begin, the shuffling feet and coughing settle as the dignitaries line up in uniforms, cassocks and mayoral