The Mapping of Love and Death

AUTHOR'S NOTE

To this day, the remains of those listed as missing in the Great War are being unearthed across France and Belgium. For David Bartlett-a former police superintendent in the United Kingdom and an expert on the battlefields-the task of identifying those remains, and ensuring the fallen are laid to rest with honor, has become his life's work. It was a letter sent by David to the Santa Barbara Independent in 2005, in a quest to identify the newly discovered remains of a young soldier-who might have been an American serving with a British regiment-that inspired this novel. The soldier now rests in peace at the Tyne Cot cemetery in Belgium. He has not been identified, and his headstone bears the inscription: A Soldier of the Great War Known Unto God.