AR4 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED and dated by author on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping, and few tiny tear on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. In this enthralling story of love, loss, and divided loyalties, two students fall in love on the eve of WWI and must face a world at war - from opposing sides. 9.5"x6.5", 309 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Cambridge, MA, 1914: Helen Windship Brooks, the precocious daughter of the prestigious Boston family, is struggling to find herself at the renowned Harvard-Radcliffe university when carefree British playboy, Riley Spencer, and his brooding German poet-cousin, Wils Brandl, burst into her sheltered world. As Wils quietly helps the beautiful, spirited Helen navigate Harvard, they fall for each other against a backdrop of tyrannical professors, intellectual debates, and secluded boat rides on the Charles River. But with foreign tensions mounting and the country teetering on the brink of World War I, German-born Wils finds his future at Harvard - and in America - increasingly in danger. When both cousins are called to fight on opposing sides of the same war, Helen must decide if she is ready to fight her own battle for what she loves most. Based on the true story behind a mysterious and controversial World War I memorial at this world-famous university, The End of Innocence sweeps readers from the elaborate elegance of Boston's high society to Harvard's hallowed halls to Belgium's war-ravaged battlefields, offering a powerful and poignant vision of love and hope in the midst of a violent, broken world.