SOLVED. 19th Century novel. Soldier gets out of a trench and starts walking, deserts army, settles down in a town using a false name, becomes shareholder of a printing press and a newspaper. [s]

[Azhar Saeed]

it starts with a soldier who gets out of a trench and starts walking, deserts army, settles down in a town under pseudo name, becomes shareholder of a printing press and a newspaper and so on etc

[Joseph]

Maybe The Realist, by Hermann Broch?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sle...

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[Kris]

Azhar, what the location/ country? Which war and who did the soldier fight for?

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[Azhar Saeed]

Joseph wrote: "Maybe The Realist, by Hermann Broch?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sle..."

Bingo. Thats it !!!

The Realist by Hermann Broch. Thank very much Joseph.