Where Destiny Commands: 1939 - 1945: A Time of Love and War

By Leila Sen

Book Overview

Based on true events and discovered letters, Where Destiny Commands is a love story set against the devastating backdrop of war.

1940: As WWII engulfs the world, the British Raj faces its final years in India. A young Indian doctor embarks on the journey of a lifetime when he joins the Medical Service in the British Indian Army. The war takes him to the Middle East, and eventually to Cairo, a tumultuous city of political intrigue and espionage, teeming with Allied Forces and those displaced from war ravaged nations. There, he meets a young woman, haunted by the Armenian genocide that she fled for safe haven in Egypt. Fate, however, intervenes when his Battalion, the 2/4 Gurkha Rifles, is swept into battle against Rommel's Afrika Korps, and he is captured in the Battle of Gazala. Faced with separation & surrounded by global turmoil, will their destiny be denied, or will their love transcend the tragedies of war, & the barriers of time & fate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C3KXDGWF
• ISBN13: 9798987426302
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Hob Hollow Publishing
• Length: 602 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"