The owner of the book told me its very rare and exagerated greatly that i was to take good care of it, as its in a Very fragile state. Hi im new to all this so i hope im posting in the correct place. i just started looking into my G.Grandads role in the war and ive been lent a very old and fragile book called COVENANTS WITH DEATH, Daily Express Publications, London 1934. Edited by T.A.Innes & Ivor Castle.

A gorgeous small town beauty has been strangled – but by whom? Her husband, drunk, found her – and he is arrested. But he keeps saying he’s innocent. Who wouldn’t? The last line ought to be carved in stone somewhere . . . Find it. Read it. You'll be a better person for having done so' My grandmother was born in Sheffield. I can remember my great grandmother and grandmother telling me stories of what happened to the City of Sheffield after the battle of the Somme in World War I. My maternal great uncle was a member of the Sheffield City Battalion (12th Battalion) York Regiment 94th Brigade, 31 Division and died at the Somme. I have his regimental patch with the white rose on it. I grabbed this book “Covenant with Death” by John Harris because it was a historical novel about the Sheffield City Battalion. The book was first published in 1961 and has been reprinted several times since then. The audio book I read was released on September 4, 2014. Your treaty with death will be dissolved; your agreement with Sheol will not last. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, you will be overrun by it. Without understanding that Jesus is the cornerstone and died for your sin. Scripture is all but searching. As Jesus states, “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing whip shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it. There must come to every man who is part of an apparatus a moment when the apparatus functions without him, in spite of him, unheeding; the moment when he must say, You take the king’s shilling, you fight the king’s war. Either that or he deserts. But the moment is a hard one. You join up because they need a man and you think you are a good one, and suddenly you are not a man at all but one small dumb erg in a monstrous blind force. The year is 1923 somewhere in the southwest where the oppressive heat is a part of life. A young judge, newly appointed by the state, struggles with this honor and responsibility against his personal life, which is still not completely baked.

and if justice was not rightness, how could it be justice? That was why you shot a crippled horse. That was also why you drank during Prohibition. Because sometimes justice and rightness did not seem to be the same. Justice was public and rightness was private and if they were not the same you chose rightness and did not inflict pain. For ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol have we made an agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves. Ben's character is well done. Although I often dislike books where the main character does a lot of soul searching, in this instance it was compelling. I also loved the character of his mother. I highly recommend this book if you enjoy a good murder mystery, but even more if you're interested in truth, innocence, and the limits of the law.Set in 1923 in Soledad City, New Mexico, a newly minted state, A Covenant With Death is a courtroom drama that evolves into so much more. Ben Morales is a young, inexperienced district judge in this town where serious crime is rare, and the murder of Mrs. Louise Talbot is far from being an open and shut case. What he learns as this case develops, and what we learn along with him, is literary genius. Because ye have said: 'We have made a covenant with death, and with the nether-world are we at agreement; when the scouring scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood have we hid ourselves';

I bought this in a second hand bookshop in Bangkok of all places and it's spent the last thirty years travelling around the world with me. Superficially, it's a straight forward tale of Kitchener's Army (a thinly disguised version of the Sheffield Pals) from formation in 1914 to destruction on the Somme in 1916. For you said, "We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place."

Laden with knowledge yet sparely written, Covenant with Death is the work of an author immersed in the lives of those who fought' Eventually, in desperation even Judah made a treaty with the weakened nation of Egypt for aid in case of an invasion from the Assyrian empire.