Title: The Somme stations /
Authors: Martin, Andrew, 1962-
Publisher: Faber,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Stringer, Jim (Fictitious character) Fiction.; Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 Fiction.
Abstract: 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.