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    The Secret Battle
    The Secret Battle
    The Secret Battle
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    The Secret Battle

    By A.P. Herbert

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1969
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    A.P. Herbert

    A P Herbert (1890-1971) was one of Britain’s greatest comic writers, who specialised in writing for Punch, where the Topsy letters first appeared. He had a long career as a Member of Parliament and lawyer, during which he was a savage critic of obsolete British laws.

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    • 4/5
      A sad and moving story of the British infantry man's experience in the trenches of the First World War. A. P. Herbert's style is as calm and measured as the events he describes are horrible. Our hero is Harry, a delicate Oxford Scholar filled with fear and self-doubt but driven by a relentless need to conquer it. Through the lens of trenches in Gallipoli and France, the book looks at the "wind up" (what would now probably be called PTSD) and considers what constitutes courage, and how it differs from soldier to soldier.
    • 5/5
      Proof of the fact that as early as that people grasped the meaning of shell-shock/PTSD and how much the army doctrines were resented.

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