Death of a Soldier: A Mother's Story
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On 12 May 2009 Margaret Evison's son Lieutenant Mark Evison of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, died of wounds sustained whilst leading a patrol in Helmand Province. Hailed a hero, Mark's death was a national sacrifice, his grave to be one of many in the identical, ordered rows in a military cemetery. But to his mother Margaret it was the most intimate of griefs. In Death of a Soldier , she attempts to reconcile her own unanswerable sense of loss with the idea that her son died for a good cause.
Author: Margaret Evison
Format: Hardback, 300 pages, 152mm x 229mm, 438 g
Published: 2012, Biteback Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: Autobiography: General
Description
On 12 May 2009 Margaret Evison's son Lieutenant Mark Evison of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, died of wounds sustained whilst leading a patrol in Helmand Province. Hailed a hero, Mark's death was a national sacrifice, his grave to be one of many in the identical, ordered rows in a military cemetery. But to his mother Margaret it was the most intimate of griefs. In Death of a Soldier , she attempts to reconcile her own unanswerable sense of loss with the idea that her son died for a good cause.
Death of a Soldier: A Mother's Story