'They can say what they bloody well like, but we're a f****n' fine mob.'Deep in the mud, stench of the Somme, Bourne is trying his best to stay alive. There he finds the intense fraternity of war and fear unlike anything he has ever known.Frederic M...
Born in Australia, novelist and poet Frederic Manning moved to England in his youth and was an off-and-on presence there for much of his life. Spurred to defend his adopted homeland, Manning enlisted to serve in World War I. This fictionalized accoun...
"The finest and noblest book of men and war that I have ever read.""-Ernest Hemingway""I am sure it is the book of books so far as the British Army is concerned.""-Lawrence of Arabia""A unique and extraordinary novel""-William BoydFirst published pri...
“The finest and noblest book of men at war” Ernest Hemingway The classic novel of the Great War, set during the battle of the Somme. Her Privates We follows the story of Private Bourne, an ordinary soldier dealing with extraordinary circumstances...