Michael Joll

A Time to Love and a Time to Die Michael Joll

April, 1914. English Guards Officer, Captain Harry Haig-Mallory, second son of Rear Admiral, the Earl of St Austell, meets the beautiful, young American heiress Athena Fenhagen at the St. George's Day ball at the British Embassy in Washington. The attraction is immediate - and mutual. Three days later they become engaged to be married. At Athena's insistence, the wedding is scheduled for August in the village church in Cornwall where Harry's family has their home. The outbreak of the First World War intervenes. The wedding is postponed, Harry's regiment sets off for France as part of the British Expeditionary Force and Athena returns to her parents' home in Cleveland, Ohio.