"The finest and noblest book of men and war that I have ever read."--Ernest Hemingway
"I am sure it is the book of books so far as the British Army is concerned."--Lawrence of Arabia
"A unique and extraordinary novel"--William Boyd
First published privately in 1929 as The Middle Parts of Fortune, Her Privates We is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspective of Bourne, an ordinary private. A raw and shockingly honest portrait of men engaged in war, "that peculiarly human activity," the original edition was subject to "prunings and excisions"...
"The finest and noblest book of men and war that I have ever read."--Ernest Hemingway
"I am sure it is the book of books so far as the Britis...
Set in the mud and stench of the Somme this is a grim, sardonic tale of war that let William Boyd to say this is the finest novel to come out of the First World War . They can say what they bloody well like, but we're a fuckin' fine mob.' Deep in the mud, stench of the Somme, Bourne is trying his best to stay alive. There he finds the intense fraternity of war and fear unlike anything he has ever known. Frederic Manning's novel was first published anonymously in 1929. The honesty with which he wrote about the horror, the boredom, and the futility of war inspired Ernest Hemingway to...
Set in the mud and stench of the Somme this is a grim, sardonic tale of war that let William Boyd to say this is the finest novel to come out of the F...
