

Set in the trenches of Flanders and the Irish midlands, this novel is a memorable, complex and dynamic triumph of story-telling that will endure in the memory. It tells the story of two friends from a rural town who join the British army and the devastating effect the First World...


'... a lad could be sent to any place in the world, to any spot in the empire on which the sun never set, an empire with huge mountains and lakes with no bottoms to them; waterfalls a mile high; rivers a hundred miles across where they floated into the sea ...' Ireland 1913,...