Some stories refuse to stay buried. In John Amos’ The Call of the Bugle, the ghosts of war, lost love, and an unfinished past converge decades after the Charge of the Light Brigade, drawing an aging reporter back into the tragedy he witnessed as a young man.
After surviving the catastrophic charge at Balaklava when he was a young war correspondent, the reporter spends decades trying to understand what happened. Struggling with alcoholism and haunted by what he witnessed, he searches through forgotten diaries, long-hidden letters, and interviews with the daughters of the fallen, piecing together the life and death of General Robert Dryden, who appeared to be smiling as he charged the gates of hell. But his search for historical answers gradually becomes something more personal. As the past resurfaces, he is tormented by the ghost of a general who cannot rest and by the memory of a love he refuses to name.
The Call of the Bugle by author and former professor John Amos is a sweeping, multi-generational historical saga set against the stark reality of the Crimean War. It is a haunting meditation on valor and folly, memory and masculinity, and the unspoken costs of war.
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