Adam Hardrow.
Series: Hardrow chronicles -- v1
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
First sentence: "What I have got to decide," said Colonel Dauncy, "is whether or not to initiate the procedures which would lead to your trial by court martial.  For a serious offence.  You realize that, I suppose?"
Description: September 1939, and the 2nd Westmorlands are mobilized for France.  Among them is Second Lieutenant Adam Hardrow, ardent to prove himself in battle with the Regiment, as his father did twenty years before.

      War doesn't turn out quite as Adam romantically expected.  But amid the endless trench-digging of the phoney war, the ultimately pointless push into Belgium, and the disastrous confusion of Dunkirk, Adam begins to learn about the realities of battle and the men he fights it with - and their wives and daughters , too...