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Title: Powerful, moving story
Review: Having recently read "All Quiet on the Western Front", it was with some reluctance that I picked up another book that is primarily about the First World War. What swung it for me were the reviews, which were full of phrases like "deeeply moving", "incredibly visceral". However, I am gald that I read the book, and would thoroughly recommend it. Faulks has basically written a novel about the horrors of war. He has tried to mix it up (with varying success) by introducing incidents/characters before and after the war. However, the main guts of the book is the central character's struggle to survive during the slaughter in the mud of Flanders. This is were the book is at its most compelling. Faulks does a superb job in capturing this nightmare. The claustophia of the "underground" chapters is particularly well done. "Enjoy" is the not the right word to describe my reaction to this book. "Respect" is closer to the mark.
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