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Manning served on the Western Front in WWI and this novel reads more like a memoir. It is written from the viewpoint of an omniscient 3rd person narrator who enters into the thoughts of his main character, Bourne, and describes the everyday life of the foot soldier between engagements - the trips to drink at the estaminet, the lice and mud, the noise of shells landing nearby.
I found this interesting rather than engaging, as the bald prose and the 3rd person narrator keep the reader at a distance ...more
I found this interesting rather than engaging, as the bald prose and the 3rd person narrator keep the reader at a distance ...more
Dec 05, 2017
Kai Coates
marked it as to-read
Dec 25, 2008
Erika
marked it as to-read
