by HenryWilliamson (Author), Anne Williamson (Introduction)
By October 1916 Phillip Maddison is hardened by life in the trenches. As he makes his way to a transport course, he prays that his gammy leg will not prevent his return to the Front - the only way he feels he can assuage his grief for Lily, who has been killed by a Zeppelin. Back in France, he is at one with the men who, in attack and counter-attack, experience constant rain and mud, see dead men unburied, mixed up with mules, wagons and horses, and feel increasingly isolated from those in charge - 'What do they know of barbed wire and the front line?' Then comes the hopelessness and desolation of Passchendaele...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd
Published: 22 May 1997
ISBN 10: 0750914718
ISBN 13: 9780750914710