Those Are Pearls

The first time Harry Short rides into battle—in 1895, at the beginning of the Boer War—it's to win the heart of Margaret Roll. Nineteen years later, at the start of World War One, he enlists again, this time to escape her. With Margaret, Harry creates a family rich in character whose story spans generations and continents, traveling from Cape Town to Winnipeg to Flanders' Fields. Harry's family arrives to Canada in 1910 as prairie homesteaders, witnesses the Winnipeg Riot of 1919, survives ...