The Dead of Mametz: The First Thomas Oscendale Novel. This item is unavailable.The Dead of Mametz: The First Thomas Oscendale Novel

In an Allies' barracks near Mametz Wood, France, in 1916, military policman Det. Thomas Oscendale investigates the connection between the murder of two soldiers and a suicide, followed by the murder of a French widow in town.

Jonathan Hicks He is the author of four books on military history: `A Solemn Mockery' on the myths of the Anglo-Zulu War, an extract from which in 2006 won the Victorian Military Society's top award; `Strange Hells' which told the story of his great uncle's service at Gallipoli and on the Western Front during the Great War. He has also written on his hometown's military past in the 2007 book `Barry and the Great War' - an illustrated account of the part that Barrians played in that conflict, a lecture on which won the Western Front Association Shield in 2010. In 2008 he wrote an illustrated account on the role Barrians played in WW2 - `Barry and the Second World War'.

His work has been published in the magazines `Soldiers of the Queen', `Stand To', `The Great War' and `Britain at War'. He writes regular articles for the local press and twice a month gives lectures on military history throughout south Wales.