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Flesh Wounds

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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