Covenant with Death Contributor(s): Harris, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0751557129 ISBN-13: 9780751557121 Publisher: Sphere OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 4.9" W x 7.7" (0.85 lbs) 520 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Stirringly told from the view of everyday soldiers, Covenant with Death is acclaimed as one of the greatest novels about war ever written. With a new foreword by Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin. The Times 'The last line ought to be carved in stone somewhere . . . Find it. Read it. You'll be a better person for having done so' Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail An anti-war book right up there with Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front Shortlist (The Greatest War Novels of all Time) 'Covenant With Death . . . showed with unbearable actuality what happened to a newly formed Sheffield regiment on the first day of the battle of the Somme' Christopher Hitchens, Guardian 'The blood and guts, the nightmare stink of cordite . . . appalling realism' The Times 'Only one novel about the war since 1945 has the power and feeling of veracity to compare with the works of the 1920s and 30s . . . Covenant with Death by John Harris' The Western Front Organisation 'A superb novel' Daily Mirror 'John Harris's neglected masterpiece of a novel, Covenant With Death, is the success that it is because it follows a group of Sheffield workers from their flag-waving sign-up to the hecatomb on the Somme' The Atlantic 'True and terrible' Observer 'An outstanding achievement' Sunday Express |