Great read - uncensored

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Why weren't more books like this written? First hand accounts with genuine language and real (often gruesome) details.
In the book, the average soldier is concerned with small, petty things when not fighting, and then can be suddenly - matter-of-factly - ended when in the front line.
The writer - though the book is autobiographical - seems as detached as his main character is. There no sentimentality in the book - which came as quite a shock to me. I kept waiting for it, but it didn't come.
Excellent book.

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Beautifully written

It’s obvious that the author writes from experience, he captures the relationships between soldiers in only the way someone who served could. Loved the performance which enhanced the beautiful writing. Perhaps a bit slow for some but worth it for me!

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Difficult Read - I Liked it by the End

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

War as it really is, both the boredom and the horror of it.

Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Stanley McGeagh?

Somebody who knows French!

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Fine narration...writing style a little dense

An intricate insight into the everyday lives of men at the front during the great war. A must for war buffs however, I found the literary style slightly lacking. There is a lot of dense information dumping, perhaps necessary for audiences of the time however for the modern reader that I am, it seemed to kick me out of the story all too often.

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