The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916 - Couverture souple

Manning, Frederic

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0857065963 ISBN 13 : 9780857065964

Editeur : Leonaur Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

A classic story of men in the trenches

Frederic Manning, the author of this book, which is also known as Her Privates We, was a well regarded Australian writer and poet who settled in the United Kingdom in the early years of the 20th century. He moved in bohemian circles and was frail in health and a heavy smoker despite suffering from asthma. He was nevertheless keen to enlist when war came in 1914 and predictably had some difficulty persuading the Army to accept him. In 1915, however, he managed to enlist in the Shropshire Light Infantry as a private soldier. He failed his officer training course. In 1916 he took part in the battle of the Somme and proved himself an able NCO. Subsequently he was promoted to Second Lieutenant and transferred to the Royal Irish Regiment where he proved to be unsuccessful officer material. His combat experiences, inebriation and poor health had taken their toll and he resigned his commission in 1918. Manning continued writing, producing poetry, novels and non fiction. This book, originally published anonymously, is based on Manning's authentic wartime experiences, but it is a novel. Its principal character, Bourne was named after a small English town where Manning had spent much of his time. The Middle Parts of Fortune is now considered to be one of the few true classic of the literature of war and tells the story, in the starkest terms, of ordinary men enduring the privations and dangers of the Western Front during the Great War.
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A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

'The finest novel to come out of the First World War' William Boyd

'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 read the novel every year, 'to remember how things really were so that I will never lie to myself nor to anyone else about them'.

See also: War Stories

Présentation de l'éditeur

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Leonaur Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857065963
• ISBN 13: 9780857065964
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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