num_pages: 384
description: By October 1916 Phillip Maddison is hardened by life in the trenches. As he makes his way to a transport course, he prays that his gammy leg will not prevent his return to the Front - the only way he feels he can assuage his grief for Lily, who has been killed by a Zeppelin. Back in France, he is at one with the men who, in attack and counter-attack, experience constant rain and mud, see dead men unburied, mixed up with mules, wagons and horses, and feel increasingly isolated from those in charge - 'What do they know of barbed wire and the front line?' Then comes the hopelessness and desolation of Passchendaele...
language: English
title: Love and the Loveless: A Soldier's Tale
titlecomplete: Love and the Loveless: A Soldier's Tale (Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight)
ratings_count: 29
series: A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight
publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd