The middle parts of fortune
Subtitle: Somme & Ancre, 1916
By: Frederic Manning.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction; Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 -- Fiction
Description: Deep in the mud, stench of the Somme, Bourne is trying his best to stay alive. There he finds the intense fraternity of war and fear unlike anything he has ever known. Australian poet Frederick Manning's autobiographical novel was first published anonymously in 1929 due to the brutal honesty with which he wrote about the horror, the boredom, and the futility of war.