Robert Sackville-West

Selected as a Book of the Year by the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating ... carefully researched and beautifully written' DAVID DIMBLEBY 'Utterly riveting' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Robert Sackville-West writes tenderly about death and remembrance' GERARD DEGROOT, THE TIMES By the end of the First World War, over half a million British soldiers were listed as missing, presumed dead, their...

In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later that the full story emerged. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot himself minutes after the death...