![]() ![]() ![]() Absolutist monarchs inherit their positions as an undeniable benefit of their birth into a long family line of monarchs. The power of an absolutist government may not be challenged or limited. The Absolutist is a novel that examines the events of the Great War from the perspective of two young privates, both struggling with the complexity of their emotions and the confusion of their friendship. Absolutism is a political system in which a single monarch, usually a king or queen, holds complete and unrestrained power over a country. ![]() As they stroll through the streets of a city still coming to terms with the end of the war, he recalls his friendship with Will, from the training ground at Aldershot to the trenches of Northern France, and speaks of how the intensity of their friendship brought him from brief moments of happiness and self-discovery to long periods of despair and pain. ![]() One that he is desperate to unburden himself of to Marian, if he can only find the courage. The Absolutist is a masterful tale of passion, jealousy, heroism, and betrayal set in one of the most gruesome trenches of France during World War I. But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War but in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor, an act which has brought shame and dishonour on the Bancroft family. 20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. ![]()
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