The Middle Parts of Fortune
Somme And Ancre, 1916
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
28 May 2014
Summary
A moving, raw, and powerful novel about fighting on the front, re-issued to tie in with the WW1 centenary.
Bourne is a private fighting on the front. He is under pressure to accept a commission and become an officer, but he prefers to be among the ranks, drawn into the universal struggle for survival in a world gone mad.
Manning’s startling work is unlike any other First World War novel in its portrayal of the lives of ordinary British soldiers—the trauma of the Somme; the mom…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141393414 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141393416 |
| Author: | Frederic Manning, Niall Ferguson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2014 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
Outstanding. Almost certainly the finest work of its kind to emerge from the war
Outstanding. Almost certainly the finest work of its kind to emerge from the war – Max Hastings * Guardian *I read it over once each year to remember how things really were – Ernest HemingwayThe finest novel to come out of the First World War – William Boyd
About The Author
Frederic Manning
Niall Ferguson is one of Britain’s most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968- The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His many other prizes include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013). He was named Columnist of the Year at the 2018 British Press Awards.
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