At the Sign of the Sword: A Story of Love and War in Belgium
1915
Summer 1914. In the lush Meuse valley, where feudal castles still crown the hills and peasants call cattle home by the blast of the horn, Edmond Valentin and Aimee de Neuville share a discreet lunch at a riverside hotel. They love each other deeply, but Aimee's father will never accept a suitor beneath his daughter's station. As they linger over wine, the political clouds gathering over Europe feel distant, a whisper of trouble in a land that has known peace for generations. The reader knows what these lovers cannot: that in weeks, Germany will pour through this pastoral paradise. That the quiet Meuse will run red through Dinant and Namur. That the world they inhabit is already dying. Le Queux, writing in the war's immediate aftermath, captures both the poignant blindness of peace and the particular cruelty of love caught between class prejudice and the machinery of empire. A romance that understands how the personal and the political collide.
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