Contributions

  • Beauman, Nicola, 1944- - Contributor
  • Omega Workshops - Contributor

Publication

1999 - Persephone Books, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

56,500 words, Guess

Page Count

226 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL22493538M
  • ISBN-100953478009
  • OCLC Control Number43376499
  • LibraryThing76036
  • Goodreads1266963

Classifications

  • LCCPR6015.A458 W55 1999

Description

This book is one of the best books about WWI that is not about the actual fighting soldiers or families on the home front. Focused a man and a woman, one a socialist, the other a suffragette, who are forced from their comforts and "normal" lives because of the war, but in a way that is not so common. They go to their honeymoon in cottage in the remote hills of the Belgian Ardennes, when "suddenly" the war breaks out. They encounter German military routines with a detached humor, only to be pushed into the heart of the brutality of war a mere day later. The book has a sense of immediacy and shows a realistic and grim view of the WWI.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction

Series Statement

  • Persephone book -- no. 1

Other Editions

  • William, an EnglishmanPersephone Books1999

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