Splendor from Darkness

By William Davey
Published by The Wessex Collective
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Published: March 08, 2012
Words: 389,726 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781466162624

Short description

a novel about the North African campaign in World War II and then the French Resistance, but also much more: a novel showing human nature on the edge, how human love can spring up and triumph under the most trying and desperate situations, a novel with well over a hundred characters that display the entire range of human nature all perfectly delineated with telling and convincing detail.

Extended description

When Allied Forces were engaging Rommel in North Africa during World War Two, as usual the frontline troops had the heaviest casualties. So when Act. Sgt. Michael Santini is successful in almost single-handedly guiding his depleted and miss-matched international Special Forces squad through a rear-guard defense of a temporary retreat in the Kasserine Pass, while personally surviving hand-to-hand combat and a violent tank attack, he counts himself lucky when he’s only wounded. He’s already found that not all of his battles are against the Germans, but in a rear-echelon hospital where he imagined he was safe, the fight for his life intensifies. Falsely charged with rape, a wartime offense punishable by death, his existence suddenly depends upon the outcome of a wildly psychological Courts-Martial. Later thrown together in an espionage mission in Southern France with the conniving nurse that tried to eliminate him, New York taxi driver Santini finds that destiny has plans f.. (Read more) When Allied Forces were engaging Rommel in North Africa during World War Two, as usual the frontline troops had the heaviest casualties. So when Act. Sgt. Michael Santini is successful in almost single-handedly guiding his depleted and miss-matched international Special Forces squad through a rear-guard defense of a temporary retreat in the Kasserine Pass, while personally surviving hand-to-hand combat and a violent tank attack, he counts himself lucky when he’s only wounded. He’s already found that not all of his battles are against the Germans, but in a rear-echelon hospital where he imagined he was safe, the fight for his life intensifies. Falsely charged with rape, a wartime offense punishable by death, his existence suddenly depends upon the outcome of a wildly psychological Courts-Martial. Later thrown together in an espionage mission in Southern France with the conniving nurse that tried to eliminate him, New York taxi driver Santini finds that destiny has plans for him different than he had ever imagined. Beautifully conceived and masterfully written, Splendor from Darkness was basically done between 1945 and 1960 and then refined over the next 50 years during constant family conflict. Davey’s mother, then remarried, used her International Harvester fortunes to suppress Splendor and other manuscripts, paying publishers to keep them out of print. This publication is a testament to William Davey’s perseverance against a lifetime of unjustified malicious destructiveness.
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french resistance, world war 2, literary fiction, special forces, human love, military rape trial, north african campaign, military field hospital, class hatred

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