Michael G Bergen

Joe Rutherford, a young shipbuilder from Jarrow, in the northeast of England, is unusual among his peers. He was fortunate to attend school long enough to learn to read, and becomes an inspiring teller of stories about the current war in southern Africa; stories he has gleaned from the British pr...

Following the 2nd Anglo-Boer War and a British India tour, our young protagonists returned in 1906 to a changed Edwardian England. They pick up their pre-military jobs, marry and start their families. Life was treating them well until the century careened toward an even more catastrophic conflict...

Following WWI, peace and prosperity returned to Europe and the British Empire for a while. Joe came back from the war a broken man. His wife was able to nurse him back to strength, and he returned to his pre-war job in the shipyards. In this third part of The Rutherford Chronicles, you will share...