Matador

I found 'Salt of their Blood' and absolutely fascinating read, set in the 60s and 70s in and around Oxfordshire. I liked the way that the story bounced back and forth between the two decades, and in a way it reminded me of a very stylistic type of English pulp fiction. It is a dark story of love found, lost and found again,a bit like a Greek tragedy, but also it is about crime and who did the deed. There are clues but I still found it a surprise by the end of the book as to who did actually do the murder.

This is the story of seven men, born hundreds of miles, seperated by nationality, race and religion. They were amazing men bought together by war. This is a fictionalised account of a true story and is a moving tribute to a noble band of men whose stories have been hidden for years.

The stories are poinant and moving, how the entwining of the groups of people involved is hard to read about. The maps of the areas they were fighting in and the points that the opposition troups were holding.