Original sentence: "His book has the force of a mob-protest; an outcry from anonymous throats."It's queer about this book--it suddenly made me wonder whether any other book about the War has been written in this country.It does not matter that every stock situation of the war, suicide, the murder of an officer, the slaughter of prisoners, a vision of Christ, is apportioned to Company K, because the book is not written in any realistic convention.It is a selected, partial, bitter picture, but a picture we need.It is the only War-book I have read which has found a new form to fit the novelty of the protest.It ranks at once with the few great cries of protest.It will live.It will make patriots and romanticists angry--yet it is the kind of patriotism that is hardest and toughest.It's a book of extra-ordinary courage--not the courage of hope but the quiet courage of despair.None of the acts of bravery for which the author was decorated during the War was as brave as this anthology of dismay.The journalist and writer Christopher Morley had an almost identical response to Company K after reading an advance copy:.The prose is bare, lucid, without literary echoes, not an imitation but a development of eighteenth-century prose.The wheel turns and turns and it does not matter, one hardly notices that the captain of the company, killed on page 159, is alive again a hundred pages later.Writer and literary critic for the Spectator Graham Greene places it among the most important of all war novels: