No Winners: A World War I Novel

A sweeping World War I epic of love, fate, and the quiet tragedies that shaped nations.In the peaceful borderlands between France, Luxembourg, and Germany, two families live ordinary lives shaped by craft and tradition. But as Europe drifts toward catastrophe, Virgil Montalember, a French cooper's son, and Arno Wilsdorf, a young Luxembourg farmer, are pulled into opposite sides of a war neither wanted.Virgil fights to survive Verdun and return to his wife and the infant son he's never met. Arno, conscripted into the German army, clings to his promise to Alba, Virgil's sister, the woman he loves across enemy lines. Two hundred meters of mud and barbed wire separate them, neither knowing how their fates are connected.From quiet villages and autumn harvests to the gas-choked hell of Verdun, No Winners follows two men whose lives intersect in ways they'll never understand, and the families left waiting in the spaces war forgets.For readers of All Quiet on the Western Front, Birdsong, and The Winter Soldier.