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The Middle Parts of Fortune
  • Published: 6 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9781448190225
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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The Middle Parts of Fortune

Somme And Ancre, 1916

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EBook
5 June 2014
EBook
6 Feb 2014
Paperback
28 May 2014
Paperback
1 Apr 2014
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Set in the mud and stench of the Somme this is a grim, sardonic tale of war that led William Boyd to say ‘this is the finest novel to come out of the First World War’

'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.

Frederic Manning's novel was first published anonymously in 1929. The honesty with which he wrote about the horror, the boredom, and the futility of war inspired Ernest Hemingway to read the novel every year, 'to remember how things really were so that I will never lie to myself nor to anyone else about them.
  • Published: 6 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9781448190225
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
Categories:

About the author

Frederic Manning

Frederic Manning was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1882. Prevented by asthma from attending the usual educational institutions, he was taught largely at home, and at the age of sixteen was sent to England. In 1914 he joined the army, and as a soldier in the ranks ultimately fought in the terrible battles on the Somme. In 1929 he published, privately and anonymously, The Middle Parts of Fortune, his novel about military life.
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