Alvesdon

Wiltshire, 1939 In the small village of Alvesdon, the Castell family and their farm have been staples in the community for decades. As the threat of war edges closer to their sanctuary each day, each member of the Castell family finds themselves pushed in ways they could have never imagined. With relationships tested and torn apart, facing both personal tragedy and physical conflict, Alvesdon explores the fortunes of three generations of the Castell family from the onset of the Second World War up until the Battle of Britain in 1940.

About the author

James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently The Savage Storm and Cassino '44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts.

He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels.

With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940 and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.

Product details

• Authors: James Holland
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.2024
• EAN: 9781787636705
• ISBN: 978-1-78763-670-5
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, FICTION / Sagas, Historical fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, Family life fiction, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II