Frederic Manning

'The Middle Parts of Fortune'

Bog | Engelsk

'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. There he finds the intense fraternity of war and fear unlike anything he has ever known

'Her Privates We'

Bog | Engelsk

First published privately in 1929 as The Middle Parts of Fortune, Her Privates We is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspective of Bourne, an ordinary private. A raw and shockingly honest portrait of men engaged in war, 'that pecul