The Great War is raging across the world and the British are fighting beside their allies against the Macedonians.

In the hospitals of Malta and Salonika, two dedicated doctors are locked in an ongoing battle of their own. One, an active Suffragette trained In Edinburgh, faces a daily fight for status and respect at a time when ‘lady’ doctors were despised and mistrusted. The other trained in The Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin and nearby hospitals. Both are strongly opinionated and passionate about their calling; a clash of personalities is inevitable. However, love flourishes in the most adverse of conditions - the two doctors go on to set up not one but two practices in London, as well as welcoming daughter into the world.
As time goes by, war also impacts on the lives of the doctor’s descendants. Told from the point of view of various family members, the action leads the reader from the turbulent world of London during the Blitz to the code breaking genius of Bletchley Park, from the tense Battle of the Atlantic to the terrible Battle of Kohima.

The first battle was recorded in Samuel in the Old Testament, where the Israelites were facing a huge Israelite Army on a mountain near the village of Michmash. Jonathan, King Saul’s son, finds a secret path to reach and outflank the enemy, and eventually wins an extraordinary victory.

The second battle takes place in 1918 when the British Army is facing the Ottomans in the same place and in the same circumstances. A British officer is reading the Bible the night before the battle and finds the reference to Michmash. He learns about the tactics Jonathan used three thousand years before and the secret path he found. Using similar tactics, he and his men win a magnificent victory over the Ottomans.

A filthy barge arrives in Basra full of near-dead British Soldiers, wounded, starved and dehydrated without basic care and medicine. A British officer and his team take the poor men off the barge and onto a steamer headed for Bombay and then they are taken but train to a hospital in Northern India. He recognises one badly man who had saved his life in South Africa in the horrendous Boer War some years before. When this man’s sister travels to India from England to nurse him back to health, she falls for his rescuer and they marry after the war in Murree.
World War One action takes place in Mesopotamia, India and South Africa and follows the adventures of members of a family who work and fight together and finally reunite at the family wedding.

Megiddo, the Armageddon of the Bible-three momentous battles took place near this ancient settlement in Palestine. Docker Nat Sullivan fights under Allenby during the campaign in WW1 and has vivid dreams of fighting with Richard 1 in the Third Crusade and for the Biblical Deborah, probably one of the greatest generals of all time. Nat returns to the docks and rises through the ranks of the Union to become deputy to the political giant Ernest Bevan. He rises to senior levels of the Labour Party.
Three historic and portentous adventures help shape the remarkable men of the twentieth century