Tomlinson sits on a broken pedestal in Ypres in July 1915 and wonders why there is a war. These essays move from the front, a raid night and the Marne, to reflections on islands, travel books, Carlyle, prose writing and the magazines and news that shaped what people at home believed.
Quiet, searching prose from one of the most humane British writers on the First World War. Download the free EPUB.