A review by bookeboy
Her Privates We by Frederic Manning

5.0

No other book on the first world war details the loss of individual identity suffered by those involved as precisely. No other book I've read on that war conveys the heavy weight of the wasted hours so well. The writing is spare, unsentimental, intelligent and beautiful. If Jane Austen had been in the trenches, this is the book she might have written.