Poignant and Painful

A novel that lays bare the futility of the nonsensical warfare that took the lives of so many young men in the First World War.
But a book story that centres around the heart and souls of two men, officers, thrust together in the most dreadful of circumstances, yet able to forge a friendship, a relationship that is deeply infused with respect, admiration and tenderness.
A book that is poignant, redolent with the sadness, madness and desperation of men at war, and a book that is necessarily painful - brutal, distressing and raw.
One of the most interesting novels of the First World War.