The Battle of Brittany

A little town in Brittany on the coast, forgotten but with pride. A freighter steams in one day in 1984. A man alights but doesn't know why he's there, just that his recently deceased father urged him, "Go to Bremarche," he says on his death bed. So Commander Hamilton-Stays, RN ret'd, does as instructed, entering a new world where the separatist movement is still fighting, forty years after the liberation of France. But it's not a war we would recognise, far too covert and subtle, yet dangerous all the same. Eloise Garunde, whose family stretch back a thousand years in Bremarche, would willingly help her new friend, except she is as lost as he is. It takes two young Germans, Gunter the history professor and Hilda, his awkward secretary, to bring some order to the confusion. But will the historians be able to unravel the mystery of Bremache?