Paperback. Pub the Date: March. 2003 of Pages: 464 in Publisher: Orion Publishing. Group. Limited. a of As Mary and Walter Tilford's daughter Thursday celeates her 21st birthday itain is once again at war with Germany. She volunteers as a the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse and the realities of war are soon ought home to her. But out of this nightmare comes lasting love.