2008-01-04 This book is superb!

I purchased this book a year ago and for some stupid reason I gave it away to an american friend in Washngton DC. I wanted her to experience the Great War from a British perspective. I've read a dozen or so books on the Great War, and I've found only Brothers, John Keegan's First World War and Faulk's Birdsong to have any lasting effect on me. The knack of writing a book on WW1 is that it must read like a novel, and Walsh does this, his syle is very similar to Keegan's. I recently collected a set of DVD's from a daily paper, and I couldn't help thinking that the Brothers could be actually moving across my TV screen. Walsh has painted a picture in my mind from a bygone age when war and human suffering in Europe went hand in hand. This book is a testament to why war should never happen. Well done Mr Walsh!