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Fiction · English

No More Parades: A novel

by Ford Madox Ford

About this book

The second book in the Parade's End tetralogy, it follows Captain Christopher Tietjens as he struggles to command troops at a base camp in Rouen during World War I. Amid shelling, bureaucratic chaos, and the death of soldiers in his arms, Tietjens confronts his crumbling marriage to his unfaithful wife Sylvia, who pursues him to France, while suppressing his love for another woman, Valentine Wannop.