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Flesh Wounds

Door David Holbrook

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#253976
Titel
Flesh Wounds
Auteur
Holbrook, David
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Spellmount
Jaar van uitgave
2007
ISBN10
186227391X
ISBN13
9781862273917
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
David Holbrook's remarkable autobiographical novel was first published in 1966, and immediately received high praise from critics. "The Times Educational Supplement" declared that it is, 'one of the few war novels that is conceived on the same plane as Wilfred Owen's war poems' while the "Daily Telegraph" said that, 'Mr Holbrook's evocations of tension, shock, fear and the grinding tumult of battle are very good' and that the book contains, 'the best battle descriptions... for a long time.' Only very lightly fictionalised, the narrative follows a young Cambridge undergraduate from his call-up in 1942, through training as a tank officer, the landings in Normandy, and his command of a Sherman tank in the vicious post - D-Day battles to his eventual return. This is an auth... (Lees verder)entic, first-hand account of the effect of military service, culminating in battle, death and injury, upon a sensitive young man, and it remains one of the most eloquent pieces of armoured warfare ever written.
Pagina's
255
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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