Author

Publication

2011 - Faber & Faber, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

71,750 words, Guess

Page Count

287 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC823/.92
  • LCCPR6113.A78 S66 2011

Description

On the first day of the Somme, enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival. During the stand-off that follows, Jim and his comrades must operate by night the vitally important trains carrying munitions to the Front, through a ghostly landscape of shattered trees where high explosive and shrapnel shells rain down.

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