Journey's End (Penguin Modern Classics)

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When he joined the 9th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment (C Company) there was no thought of theatre in the head of Robert Cedric Sherriff. What they encountered was an entrenched position as two opposing sides faced each other across a muddy desolate no man's land. Everyone knows that Stanhope should take the vacation time (like Captain Hardy) and recover a bit, but Stanhope insists it’s his duty to remain near the front line. Despite their enormous courage and huge sacrifice, Britain has never formally acknowledged the bravery of the men who fought through the Second World War in Bomber Command. Of particular poignancy is the intricate bond that exists between former school acquaintances Stanhope and Raleigh -- now under threat of being severed because of the changed circumstances they find themselves trapped in.

Sherriff presents an authentic depiction of how soldiers externalise the internal conflict they are facing, from those who feel ashamed, to those who believe that death or denial is better than facing the reality of yet another attack. After I read this book I wasnt satisfied, I put down the book and thought to myself 'well that's a kick in the teeth'.

Pour ces volumes, les illustrations de Sternberg ont fait l'object d'un tirage special sur chine, enlithographie, deux teintes.Printed on handmade paper and specially bound in dark cloth with vellum spine; top edge trimmed, the other edges uncut. He criticises another soldier, Second Lieutenant Hibbert, whom he thinks is faking neuralgia in the eye so that he can be sent home instead of continuing fighting. Set in the First World War, "Journey's End" concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. In the final scene, the British prepare for Germany’s last major assault as part of Operation Michael. Opposite the frontis lithograph is printed: "Il a ete tire de cet ouvrage, avant l'impression de 'edition ordinaire, 200 exemplaires numerotes de 1 a 200 sur velin pur fil lafuma, constituant l'edition originale.