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Sat 01 Jan 2010From the trenches to the Rising
FICTION:The Soldier’s SongBy Alan Monaghan Macmillan, 298pp. £11.99
IT’S A brave writer who chooses as his territory the blood-sodden trenches of the Great War. Quite aside from the Remarques and Hemingways of the immediate post-war period, in more recent years several important novels have revisited its horrors, all deserving of their claim to a place in the canon of first World War literature – Pat Barker’s Regenerationtrilogy, for instance, and Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong.
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