Coming Home

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Dec 1, 2023

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A gripping first-hand account of life at home after World War One. When underage soldier, Joe Henry, returns from the war in 1918, the England that he comes home to is very different from the one he left behind. His father is injured and the Spanish flu is raging… Joe may have survived World War One, but the danger isn’t over yet.
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