Little Albert Kropp; Muller who still carries his schoolbooks; Leer, with an eye for the girls and Paul Baumer missed by his sick mother—these are four classmates who have volunteered for the German army in 1914, with youthful optimism.
This is the story of their First World War—theirs and millions like them.
We read of carnage and shell-shock, but also of small comforts and jokes, tricks to get extra rations, stretches of boredom and banality.
No novel has portrayed more universally what Owen, writing of the same period, called "the pity of war".
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
ISBN: 9780435121464
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 302 g
Dimensions: 192 x 129 x 17 mm
This was the only book I can remember my grandfather, who had survived the trenches, giving to me, saying something along the lines of "If you want to know what it was really like, read this". I have just... More
Touching book that absolutely reads like a memoir, the reader taking each word as fact as it seems so precise, so real.
I would recommend pretty much anyone to read this as it is humbling, emotive and beautiful in its...
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