War is Hell. Following individuals as this does, we of course learn what we old people know already. No one person is completely bad (well maybe Hitler). And fate is indifferent to the good in people (and the bad). You cannot extrapolate from how much you like a character as to his or her ability to survive. I do like that we visit each major character at the end of the book (about 30 years later) to find out what has happened to each. I enjoyed the book. It definitely held my interest.
I have now begun the fourth book in the OUTLANDER series, Drums of Autumn. Jamie, Claire and entourage watch the hanging of one of Jamie's friends from the prison in Scotland and claim his body for burial. Stephen Bonnet (having escaped from the line of men to be hanged) has hidden in their wagon, next to the body.
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