The Human Kind
Spare and unsentimental, this series of episodes in the life of a platoon as it advances across war-torn Europe is among the most chillingly realistic in any novel, coming as it does from the author's own experiences in WWII.
Spare and unsentimental, this series of episodes in the life of a platoon as it advances across war-torn Europe is among the most chillingly realistic in any novel, coming as it does from the author's own experiences in WWII.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780948238475 (094823847X)
Publish date: October 1st 2011
Publisher: Black Spring Press
Edition language: English
Between January 2014 and March 2014, and not through any design, I read two books about World War Two and both are, in my opinion, masterpieces. The first was Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh, which I read in January, and after I'd finished it I doubted I'd read a better book all year. In March 2014,...