This novel could also be called ‘Through the scorching fire’. That murderous fire is the First World War that raged in Belgium and France from 1914 to 1918. The Battle of the Somme in northern France in 1916 claimed the most casualties: more than one million. The soldiers died in the trenches or during completely senseless attacks that had been devised on paper by senior officers.
Even more than a novel like Erich Maria Remarque’s No news from the Western Front know By the great fire to reflect the mood of desperation and hopelessness of the English soldiers. Alice Winn’s novel focuses on two officers: the half-German Henry Gaunt and the poetry-addicted Sidney Ellwood. D..
2023-09-08 02:21:13
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