The third novel of the Parade's End sequence. It moves between the final stages of the First World War and the uneasy peace that follows. Christopher Tietjens, an English gentleman of rigid principle, and Valentine Wannop, the young woman he loves, face a world where old certainties have collapsed. Ford uses shifting viewpoints and fragments of memory to capture how war and its aftermath felt from within. It is a demanding, rewarding modernist novel about duty, damage and the chance of a new life.