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Frustrated with her constrained life in Hertfordshire, twenty-one-year-old Lucy decides to follow her potential husband's Tom and Jamie to Spain and persuade them to come home, but once there, the horrors she sees quickly cause her tender heart to join forces with the lifesaving work of the Quaker volunteers. As the atrocities and casualties mount, the question of which man she might spend her life becomes more and more irrelevant, as the chances of either of them surviving diminish with every passing day . . .
Based on the real memoirs of the Spanish Civil War, Acts of Love and War is both a love story and a tribute to the remarkable women who fought with compassion and bravery to save innocent victims of a war that was a foretaste of the carnage soon to come in World War II.
"The stories of both the refugees and their protectors are told with honesty, insight and a tenderness that cannot fail but move the reader." -- Historia Magazine