Random Harvest
by James Hilton
The veteran's comfortable life ends when long-buried memories of his time in the trenches of World War I return Charles Rainier's family feared he would be lost along with many British teenagers during the First World War. But two years after being reported to the Home Office, he appears at Liverpool Hospital with no memory of his lost years. Even after marrying and living with relative success, he cannot remember his time on the battlefield - until the first bombs of World War II began to fall. Suddenly, his memories come back. Memories of a brutal battlefield, a German prison and a passionate romance threaten to break the peaceful life he worked so hard to create. "Random Harvest" is a touching story of the trauma of war and the courage needed to find salvation in the face of the most insurmountable conditions.