Publisher's Synopsis
Based on the author's own experiences, The Middle Parts of Fortune is a breathtaking account of the Great War and the men who fought it. It was hailed by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, by Lawrence of Arabia and Ernest Hemingway, as an extraordinary novel. Its author was in fact Frederic Manning, an Australian writer who fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and who told his story of men at war from the perspective of an ordinary soldier. This unique and harrowing account is now widely recognised as a 20th-century masterpiece.
