beachy123 's review for:

Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden

1.0

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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I really struggled with this book. But I was determined to get to the end. Firstly, the book is turgid and tedious. I am sure that life in the trenches was terrible but Blunden doesn’t really convey that terror. His narrative is disjointed and he just moves from one boring episode to the next. He never takes time to flesh out the characters he meets. The only saving grace for this edition are his poems at the end. 
This book was not really for me!