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Generals Die in Bed: 100th Anniversary Edition
by Charles Yale Harrison
ARC provided by Net Galley
I remember reading [bc:All Quiet on the Western Front|355697|All Quiet on the Western Front|Erich Maria Remarque|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1406533224s/355697.jpg|2662852] All Quiet on the Western Front and being shocked by the stark, brutally honest portrayal of the reality of fighting in the trenches during World War I. Generals Die in Bed was published a year later, in 1930, by an American, Charles Yale Harrison, who had enlisted in the Canadian Army and fought during the climax of the war, 1917-1918. The way in which Harrison throws the reader into the heat of the action through the use of present tense and the total exposure to all the violence and inequality of trench warfare makes it feel like non-fiction, not a novel. I had to keep reminding myself that this was fiction because it felt so incredibly real. The sequences are disjointed, tossing you from rest to the trenches and back over and over with the narrator so much that it becomes a confusing mess. I don't think this is a weakness of the book, it seems to accurately depict what the men experienced and left me unable to put it down. This book deserves to be ranked with [bc:All Quiet on the Western Front|355697|All Quiet on the Western Front|Erich Maria Remarque|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1406533224s/355697.jpg|2662852] All Quiet on the Western Front and [bc:A Farewell to Arms|10799|A Farewell to Arms|Ernest Hemingway|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1313714836s/10799.jpg|4652599] A Farewell to Arms as some of the very best fiction to come out of that brutal period. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in what World War I was like, with the caveat that it holds nothing back and can be both heartbreaking and horrifying to read.
I remember reading [bc:All Quiet on the Western Front|355697|All Quiet on the Western Front|Erich Maria Remarque|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1406533224s/355697.jpg|2662852] All Quiet on the Western Front and being shocked by the stark, brutally honest portrayal of the reality of fighting in the trenches during World War I. Generals Die in Bed was published a year later, in 1930, by an American, Charles Yale Harrison, who had enlisted in the Canadian Army and fought during the climax of the war, 1917-1918. The way in which Harrison throws the reader into the heat of the action through the use of present tense and the total exposure to all the violence and inequality of trench warfare makes it feel like non-fiction, not a novel. I had to keep reminding myself that this was fiction because it felt so incredibly real. The sequences are disjointed, tossing you from rest to the trenches and back over and over with the narrator so much that it becomes a confusing mess. I don't think this is a weakness of the book, it seems to accurately depict what the men experienced and left me unable to put it down. This book deserves to be ranked with [bc:All Quiet on the Western Front|355697|All Quiet on the Western Front|Erich Maria Remarque|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1406533224s/355697.jpg|2662852] All Quiet on the Western Front and [bc:A Farewell to Arms|10799|A Farewell to Arms|Ernest Hemingway|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1313714836s/10799.jpg|4652599] A Farewell to Arms as some of the very best fiction to come out of that brutal period. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in what World War I was like, with the caveat that it holds nothing back and can be both heartbreaking and horrifying to read.