George Winterbourne is killed in the last days of the First World War, and the narrator, an old comrade, sets out to explain how. He traces George’s stifling Victorian upbringing, his life among artists and free-thinking women in pre-war London, and the trenches of France, in a voice raging against the hypocrisy of the society that sent him.
Published in 1929, it ranks with the bitterest and most important English novels of the war. Download the free EPUB.