A triple biography by the author of Birdsong. It gives accounts of three extraordinary lives tragically cut short - of Christopher Wood, Richard Hillary and Jer... » 

A triple biography by the author of Birdsong. It gives accounts of three extraordinary lives tragically cut short - of Christopher Wood, Richard Hillary and Jeremy Wolfenden - and is also an exploration of three powerful eras of English history, the 1920s, World War II and the Cold War. «