The Middle Parts of Fortune: The Somme And Ancre, 1916
A moving, raw and powerful novel about fighting on the front - "The finest and noblest book of men in war that I have ever read". (Ernest Hemingway). Bourne is a private fighting on the front. He is under pressure to accept a commission and become an officer, but he prefers to be among the ranks,...
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A moving, raw and powerful novel about fighting on the front - "The finest and noblest book of men in war that I have ever read". (Ernest Hemingway). Bourne is a private fighting on the front. He is under pressure to accept a commission and become an officer, but he prefers to be among the ranks, drawn into the universal struggle for survival in a world gone mad. Manning's
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics / Penguin Books Ltd
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
IntroductionAuthor's Prefatory Note (1929)--The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916