This 1902 novel about British soldiers in foreign lands is about as melodramatic and clearly pre-WWI as one could imagine. One way to look at this book, I guess the way it’s intended, is that Harry Feversham, on the eve of sailing to Sudan in the 1880s to war, resigns his commission and returns home. He meets up with his fiancé and while there receives a package, three white feathers which stand for accusations of cowardice. When she learns of what Harry has done, she […]