A fine book on the First World War is republished

I am delighted to see that a book I have praised here, Covenant with Death, by John Harris, is to be republished. It is a spare, moving fictional account of the fate of a small group of volunteers from a Yorkshire steel town who answered the patriotic call to duty in 1914, and went over the top in the Battle of the Somme.

 

This was what I said about it

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2012/11/covenant-with-death.html

Here are some details of the new edition.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Covenant-Death-John-Harris/dp/0751557129/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407419945&sr=8-1&keywords=covenant+with+death

The title is from Isaiah, the 28th Chapter, and the 15th verse : 'Because ye have said, we have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves.'

But God replies (18th verse) : 'And your covenant with death shall be disannnulled , and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it'.