The World War I Novels · Book 2
Shoulder the Sky
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 568
- ISBN-13
- 9781593550554
- Type
- novel
About this book
Shoulder the Sky (2004, 568 pages) is the second entry, following the Reavley family into the trenches and field hospitals of the war's early phase as the underlying mystery of the shadowy Peacemaker continues to run beneath the story.
Its place in The World War I Novels
Shoulder the Sky is book 2 in the The World War I Novels series. It follows No Graves As Yet. It is followed by Angels in the Gloom. See the full The World War I Novels reading order.
Anne Perry's five-book World War I series follows the Reavley siblings -- Joseph, a Cambridge theology don who becomes an army chaplain; Matthew, an intelligence officer; and their sisters Judith and Hannah -- across the length of the war, beginning when their parents are killed in a car crash that turns out to be murder, tied to a mysterious document their father was carrying that could have prevented the war entirely. That inciting mystery (the identity and aims of a shadowy figure known as the Peacemaker) runs…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781593550554