Book Overview
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Kim James’ first book is a romantic and moving biography of seven men, three British, three French and a Senegalese. Born hundreds, and in one case thousands, of miles apart, separated by nationality, race, religion and class they have a unity at their death in the same moment, time and space.
It was only by chance that Kim discovered that the dates on their graves in the British military cemetery in Rouen and the Necropolis in Fleury les Aubrys are not only wrong in all cases bar one, but totally impossible.
Through England and France to a village in the Senegalese brush, painstaking research has tracked the immediate families of all the men including widows, sons and a daughter.
The story describes the lives and personalities of the men from birth to the outbreak of the second world war. It shows their loves, their hopes and despair and their optimism in the face of the greatest danger. It describes the coming together of their fates.
Every event, large or small, in the months of their lives from the outbreak of war in 1939 to their deaths is fact. Only dialogue is invented and much of that is based on the letters home to their families and the memories of their families. The book is soon to be made into a film by Century Aspect Films.