On the Side of the Angels Author:Betty Miller "Don't forget the Prisoners of Peace -- the people who've had to live battened down, all their lives, pretending to conform, pretending to be what they aren't. And that applies to most of us." — Honor Carmichael and her two young children are uprooted to Linfield, where her husband Colin, a dapper, small-town doctor, is stat... more »ioned at the RAMC hospital. She is visited by her sister Claudia, whose fiance, Andrew, waits to be invalided out of the Army. Whilst Andrew dismisses himself as "damaged goods", Colin becomes absorbed by the petty feuds and power games of uniformed life -- most particularly with the arrival of Captain Herriot, a commando, and the C.O.'s current favourite. « less