[WWI] WW1 books

[Bruce Boldner]

I've been noting the titles of ww1 books that list members have been 
recommending, with the intention to try and obtain them.

Many of you, I am sure, will have read 'The Middle Parts of Fortune' 
by Frederic Manning.

This isn't a novel about airplanes or tanks. However, it is the life 
of men in the trenches at Somme and Ancre in 1916, written by one who 
was there.

For those of you who might not have read it, let me quote the 
opinions of greater men than I.

Hemingway wrote of the book: "It is the finest and noblest book of 
men in war that I have ever read. I read it over once each year to 
remember how things really were so that I will never lie to 
myself  nor to anyone else about them."

Lawrence of Arabia wrote: "No praise could be too sheer for this 
book. I am sure that it is the book of books as far as the British 
army-in -the -war is concerned."

Bruce Boldner.