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|title=The Shadow of War

|sort=Shadow of War, The

|publisher=Penguin

|date=July 2014

|website=http://www.stewartbinns.com/

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|summary=Most know the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand as the shot that began the First World War. A story of five different British communities, this fast moving, wide ranging book strives to show us how no-one was left untouched by the horrors of the Great War and how for these communities, it was the start of a time of love, betrayal, grief and tragedy.

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''The Shadow of War'' is the first book in a sprawling series with a new book being released once a year for each year of the First World War. Binns writes about five British communities, all very different – an aristocratic Scottish family, a family of working class Welshfolk, a group of friends in a Lancashire factory town, a pair of Cockney soldiers, and Winston Churchill, alongside his wife Clemmie and various government figures. The groups interact at various points in the book, which leads to some very genuine and touching relationships forming, in particular the one between Margaret, a nurse, and Bronwyn, youngest daughter of the Welsh community.