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My only reservation is that the book is so detailed, and includes so many harrowing first-hand descriptions, that it becomes a real endurance test. We're thrown into the trenches on Page 1, and only emerge, blinking and disorientated, after 500 pages of doomed attacks, ferocious artillery bombardments, hideous wounds, mangled corpses, and mud. After a while everything merges into one, and you cease to care which village is being attacked and which battalion is attacking it; you just want to get out of there as quickly as possible. Which is probably how the soldiers themselves would have felt.

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