Set in the mud and stench of the Somme this is a grim, sardonic tale of war that let William Boyd to say this is the finest novel to come out of the First World War .
The honesty wi.
Frederic Manning\'s novel was first published anonymously in 1929.
There he finds the intense fraternity of war and fear unlike anything he has ever known.
They can say what they bloody well like, but we\'re a fuckin\' fine mob.\' Deep in the mud, stench of the Somme, Bourne is trying his best to stay alive.
Set in the mud and stench of the Somme this is a grim, sardonic tale of war that let William Boyd to say this is the finest novel to come out of the First World War