Covenant with Death
$27.47
- Paperback
520 pages
- Release Date
9 September 2014
Summary
They joined for their country. They fought for each other.
When war breaks out in 1914, Mark Fenner and his Sheffield friends immediately flock to Kitchener’s call. Amid waving flags and boozy celebration, the three men - Fen, his best friend Locky and self-assured Frank, rival for the woman Fen loves - enlist as volunteers to take on the Germans and win glory.
Through ramshackle training in sodden England and a stint in arid Egypt, rebellious but brave Fen proves himself to b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780751557121 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0751557129 |
| Author: | John Harris, Louis de Bernieres |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 520 |
| Release Date: | 9 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 38mm |
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The last line ‘Two years in the making. Ten minutes in the destroying. That was our history’, ought to be carved in stone somewhere … Find it. Read it. You’ll be a better person for having done so - Daily Mail
An anti-war book right up there with Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front - ShortlistCovenant With Death … showed with unbearable actuality what happened to a newly formed Sheffield regiment on the first day of the battle of the Somme - GuardianJohn Harris’s neglected masterpiece of a novel, Covenant With Death, is the success that it is because it follows a group of Sheffield workers from their flag-waving sign-up to the hecatomb on the Somme - The AtlanticA superb novel - Daily MirrorThe blood and guts, the nightmare stink of cordite … appalling realism - Daily TelegraphTrue and terrible - ObserverAn outstanding achievement - Sunday ExpressAbout The Author
John Harris
John Harris was born in 1916 and grew up in South Yorkshire. He became a journalist and worked for the Rotherham Advertiser and the Sheffield Telegraph, joining the RAF as a corporal attached to the South African Air Force during the Second World War and returning to journalism when the war ended.
He became a full-time author after the success of his 1953 novel The Sea Shall Not Have Them, which was made into a film. He wrote more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction, including books under pseudonyms Max Hennessy and Mark Hebden. As Hebden he created the crime series featuring Inspector Pel, which his daughter Juliet continued after his death in 1991.
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