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A review by bluefairybug
Who Served Well by Lawrie Johnston
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
Wow. What a beautifully poignant and heartbreaking story this was. It's fiction, but firmly based in fact and sometimes it's so easy to get caught up in a story and forget that, whilst Andrew, Tam and Kathleen are fictional characters, men and women really did fight that war, and their stories could so easily be real.
There were some rather gritty descriptions of battle wounds, and general war stuff, but I think Lawrie got the level of description just right. The writing was just perfect.
As for the plot, just devastating. This is the kind of book that will stay with me for a long time.
The title of this book is Who Served Well? And in answer to that, I say all the men and women who served. Whether they died "for King and country", were wounded, survived or deserted due to what we now recognise as PTSD. They all served well, and those of us who live in freedom owe them a great debt of gratitude.
There were some rather gritty descriptions of battle wounds, and general war stuff, but I think Lawrie got the level of description just right. The writing was just perfect.
As for the plot, just devastating. This is the kind of book that will stay with me for a long time.
The title of this book is Who Served Well? And in answer to that, I say all the men and women who served. Whether they died "for King and country", were wounded, survived or deserted due to what we now recognise as PTSD. They all served well, and those of us who live in freedom owe them a great debt of gratitude.