The classic World War One novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them. When war breaks out in 1914, both Jerry and Alec sign up - yet for quite different reasons. On the fields of Flanders they find themselves standing together, but once again divided: as officer and ...
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The classic World War One novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them. When war breaks out in 1914, both Jerry and Alec sign up - yet for quite different reasons. On the fields of Flanders they find themselves standing together, but once again divided: as officer and enlisted man. And it is there, surrounded by mud and chaos and death, that one of them makes a fateful decision whose consequences will test their friendship and loyalty to breaking point.
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This is a very slim volume but within its pages lie the most moving account of the catastrophe that was the First World War as seen by the Irish. The emotions are understated and thus all the more powerful, and the reader is drawn inexorably into the lives of the two chief characters, Jerry and Alexander. Their experiences at the front seem unexceptional by the standards of the day, but the quiet simplicity of the writing brings home to us in the twenty first century just how degrading and ghastly life was for them. The ending, which comes with a stark swiftness that is breathtaking, is totally in tune with the characters and the times.
