No more parades

By Ford Madox Ford

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Description: Captain Christopher Tietjens endures cold, mud and air-raids in a French base camp, preoccupied with his crumbling marriage, and battling not the German forces but the nightmare bureaucracy of the British Army. Abandoned - so he supposes - by the heartless Sylvia, he is bombarded by insistent thoughts of Valentine Wannop, though his sense of honour forbids him from furthering their association beyond anything but chaste friendship. Then all is altered by the sudden appearance of Sylvia in France, for her machinations will throw everything into chaos ...