Brothers in War

Eight brothers went to fight for Queen and Country in the Great War - only three would return alive...

Successfully restores a human dimension to that epic slaughter

A moving vignette about [the war's] tragic price for one family

A moving testament to the bravery and sacrifice of one British family

Michael Walsh has edited regional newspapers and worked as a staff and freelance sub-editor on national dailies and Sundays. He is Saturday chief sub-editor on The People sports desk and has written for The Sunday Telegraph, The People and Saga Magazine. Brothers In War is his first book. He is married with two daughters and lives in Ducklington, Oxfordshire.

Brothers in War is the immensely powerful and deeply tragic story of the Beechey brothers, and how they paid the ultimate price for King and country. All eight went to fight in the Great War on such far-flung battlefields as France, Flanders, East Africa and Gallipoli. Only three would return alive. Even amid the carnage of the trenches, it was a family trauma almost without parallel. Their wives and sweethearts were left bereft, their widowed mother Amy devastated. It is a tragedy that has remained forgotten and unmarked for nearly 90 years. Until now. 
 
Kept in a small brown case handed down by the brothers' youngest sister, Edie, were hundreds of letters sent home from the front by the Beechey boys: scraps of paper scribbled on in the firing line, heartfelt messages written from a deathbed, exasperated correspondences detailing the absurdities of life in the trenches. From it all emerges the remarkable tale of the lost brothers. 
 
Tragic and moving, poetic in its intensity, Brothers in War reveals first-hand the catastrophe that was the Great War; all told through one family forced to sacrifice everything.

Don Jordan

Michael Walsh

Will certainly make readers re-evaluate all the recent appeasement and hype about apologising for the slave trade

A fascinating account of Britain's troubled relationship with its biggest colony

The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 300,000 people or more became slaves there in all but name. Urchins were swept up from London's streets to labour in the tobacco fields, brothels were raided to provide 'breeders' for Virginia and hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants, unaware they would become chattels who could be bought, sold and gambled away. 
 
Drawing on letters, diaries, and court and government archives, the authors demonstrate that the brutalities associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule. 
 
The trade ended with American independence but the British still tried to sell convicts in their former colonies, which prompted one of the most audacious plots in Anglo-American history. 
 
This is a saga of exploitation and cruelty spanning 170 years that has been submerged under the overwhelming memory of black slavery. White Cargo brings the brutal, uncomfortable story to the surface.

Michael Walsh

Praise for White Cargo

An eye-opening and heart-rending story

Briskly written . . . harrowing reading

Will certainly make readers re-evaluate all the recent appeasement and hype about apologising for the slave trade

An eye-opening and heart-rending story

Briskly written . . . harrowing reading

Will certainly make readers re-evaluate all the recent appeasement and hype about apologising for the slave trade

An eye-opening and heart-rending story

Briskly written . . . harrowing reading

Will certainly make readers re-evaluate all the recent appeasement and hype about apologising for the slave trade

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