Frederic Manning

A brilliant book that makes it impossible to forget the barbarity of war.

Her Privates We

First published anonymously in 1929 because its language was considered far too frank for public circulation, The Middle Parts of Fortunewas hailed by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, by Lawrence of Arabia and Ernest Hemingway as an extraordinary novel. Its author was in fact Frederic Manning,an Australian writer who fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and who told his story of men at war from the perspective of an ordinary soldier. The Middle Parts of Fortuneis now recognised as a twentieth-century classic.

The Middle Parts of Fortune

Niall Ferguson

A moving, raw and powerful novel about fighting on the front - 'The finest and noblest book of men in war that I have ever read' (Ernest Hemingway) Bourne is a private fighting on the front. He is under pressure to accept a commission and become an officer, but he prefers to be among the ranks, drawn into the universal struggle for survival in a world gone mad. Manning's startling work is unlike any other First World War novel in its portrayal of the lives of ordinary British soldiers: the trauma of the Somme; the moments of bloodlust; the camaraderie, rivalry, alcohol and boredom. Considered obscene for its language and previously published in censored form as Her Privates We, The Middle Parts of Fortune appears here in its raw, unexpurgated version.

Somme and Ancre, 1916

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Eidola

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Presents a fictionalized depiction of the experiences of ordinary British infantry soldiers fighting in the trenches near Somme, France, during World War I.

Frederic Manning

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