The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme And Ancre, 1916 by Frederic Manning (English)

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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.

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A moving, raw and powerful novel about fighting on the front, re-issued to tie in with the WW1 centenaryBourne 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.

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A moving, raw and powerful novel about fighting on the front, re-issued to tie-in with the WWI centenary.

Author Biography

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968- The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His many other prizes include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013). He was named Columnist of the Year at the 2018 British Press Awards.

Review

Outstanding. Almost certainly the finest work of its kind to emerge from the war -- Max Hastings * Guardian *I read it over once each year to remember how things really were -- Ernest HemingwayThe finest novel to come out of the First World War -- William Boyd

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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.

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Outstanding. Almost certainly the finest work of its kind to emerge from the war

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Outstanding. Almost certainly the finest work of its kind to emerge from the war

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A moving, raw and powerful novel about fighting on the front, re-issued to tie in with the WW1 centenary

Details ISBN0141393416 Year 2014 ISBN-10 0141393416 ISBN-13 9780141393414 Media Book Pages 272 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Format Paperback Series Penguin Modern Classics Imprint Penguin Classics Subtitle Somme And Ancre, 1916 DEWEY 823 Short Title The Middle Parts of Fortune Language English UK Release Date 2014-04-03 Translator Michael A. Scarpitti Edited by Gnon Baba Affiliation Research Scholar, Amal Jyothi Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Kerala, India Position Former senior instructor and associate head, English (deceased) Author Niall Ferguson Publication Date 2014-04-03 Alternative 9780141394282 Audience General NZ Release Date 2014-05-27 AU Release Date 2014-05-27 We've got this

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