Under the shadow: Letters of love and war, 1911-1917 : the poignant testimony and story of Captain Hugh Wallace Mann, 7th & 5th Battalions, the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and Jessie Reid

The true story of a young student minister and his one and only love from the earliest days of their friendship in 1911, when Jessie is just sixteen, to a military hospital bed on the Normandy coast after the battle of Passchendaele in 1917. Hugh's letters take the reader from Shettleston in Glasgow to many scenic parts of Scotland: to Nairn, Bulnain Bridge, Arran and Loch Awe; from the depot in Inverness to camps south of the border, from billets in the quiet villages of Flanders and France to his final resting place on Les Terrasses at Le Tréport. Hugh evokes the strenuous routine of army camps, the relative calm of billets, the horror, brutality and excitement of trenches and battle. And in writing, he immortalizes his love for Jessie.