A profound and very human account of the early years of the war, told from the perspective of a father rather than combatants, but no less revealing. Mr. Britling lives in the quintessentially English town of Matching's Easy in Essex. He is a great thinker, an essayist, but most of all an optimist. When war arrives he is forced to reassess many of
A platoon of inexperienced British soldiers crosses to France, and they find themselves at Ypres where the battle-weary Allied troops are dug in, and slaughter surrounds them. With their young, upright officer Freddy Mann, they are soon in the thick of it, with some unable to cope and refusing to go over the top. We see the action through their eye
This charming short novel tells the story of a man from the Cèvennes Mountains called Roux, who refuses to join the army at the outbreak of war in 1914. Instead, he flees and hides in the hills. The people of the valley condemn his desertion and they hope the police will find his hideout. But as the months and the years go by, and the horrors of th
Behind the Lines is a thriller that follows on from the success of W. F. Morris's first novel, Bretherton: Khaki or Field-Grey? Morris is again concerned with questions of identity, allegiance, chance, concealment, and self-discovery. A subaltern is forced to flee when he accidentally kills an overbearing, taunting fellow officer. He becomes a fugi
Set in early 1916, this book follows a squad of French volunteer soldiers through the eyes of an unnamed foot soldier, who participates in and also observes the action. It combines soaring, poetic descriptions with the mundane, messy, human reality of soldiers living in their own excrement. Intermingled with details of how they navigate daily life
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