Book Review: Once More Unto the Breach

Once More Unto the Breach

by Meghan Holloway

Polis Books

Historical Fiction , Mystery & Thrillers

Pub Date 24 May 2019

I am reviewing a copy of Of Once Unto the Breach through Polis Books and Netgalley:

Once More Unto the Breach is a powerful historical thriller set against a World War 2 backdrop about a Father who will stop at nothing to find his son.

Gravenor a veteran of the Great War and a Welsh sheep farmer arrives in Paris as the city’s liberation is happening he carries in his pocket a worn letter that may have arrived years to late. He follows the footsteps of his missing son across the war torn country he struggles to come to terms with what drew a wedge between them.

He is joined by an American Ambulance driver Charlotte Dubois a woman with secrets of her own, Rhys discovers that even as liberation has swept across France, the war is far from over. He realizes too that his own war has only just started. He is haunted by memories of battles he fought before and hampered at every turn by danger and betrayal. In a race against time and war, Rhys follows his son’s trail from Paris to the dangerous streets of Vichy to the starving mobs in Lyon to the treacherous Alps. But Rhys is not the only one searching for his son…