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Her Privates We by Frederic Manning
Category: Fiction
This is a new edition of a classic war novel, a brilliant and bitter picture of human conflict. First published privately in 1929 as The Middle Parts of Fortune, Her Privates We is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspective of Bourne, an ordinary private. A raw and shockingly honest ...Show more
Philip's Multiscale Europe: 2016 by Manning Frederic
Category: Travel
Philip's Multiscale Europe 2016, in this spiral A3 format, gives more for leisure travellers than any comparable product. In addition to the main maps at 1:750,000, the continental road network is shown at three supplementary scales from 1:200,000 to 1:3M, with ultra-clear detailed maps for urban areas. ...Show more
The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederic Manning
Category: Fiction
A powerful story of men at war from the perspective of an ordinary soldier. First published anonymously in 1929 because its language was considered far too frank for public circulation, The Middle Parts of Fortunewas hailed as an extraordinary novel by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Lawrence of Arabia and ...Show more
The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916 by Frederic Manning
Category: Classic Fiction
A moving, raw and powerful novel about fighting on the front - "The finest and noblest book of men in war that I have ever read". (Ernest Hemingway). 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 ...Show more
The Middle Parts of Fortune: Text Classics by Frederic Manning
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"The drumming of the guns continued, with bursts of great intensity. It was as though a gale streamed overhead, piling up great waves of sound, and hurrying them onwards to crash in surf on the enemy entrenchments. The windless air about them, by its very stillness, made that unearthly music more terrib ...Show more
The Middle Parts of Fortune: The Unexpurgated Classic Novel by Frederic Manning
Category: Classic Fiction
First published anonymously in 1929 because its language was considered far too frank for public circulation, The Middle Parts of Fortunewas hailed by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, by Lawrence of Arabia and Ernest Hemingway as an extraordinary novel. Its author was in fact Frederic Manning,an Australian wr ...Show more
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