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1917Private Strang is fighting for survival in the trenches of France.As a young man he is finding it hard to adapt to a life where his sole purpose is to inflict death upon an unseen enemy.He thinks his struggles are all over when he is shot in the neck and is sent from the trenches to a field hospital.But his injury isn’t the end of the war for Strang.After been caught in flagrante delicto with a nurse by a group of advancing Germans, Strang is mistaken for an intelligence asset and imprisoned in a fairy-tale castle deep in the mountains of Bavaria.The castle walls seem impossible to breach, and Strang and his fellow prisoners suffer weeks of intense interrogation before managing to plan an escape through the sewers.Will Strang manage to escape to freedom?Or will he have to fight to win One Man’s War?‘One Man’s War’ is a classic First World War novel about one man’s struggle for survival against the odds.‘One of the more significant war novels to have been written since Catch 22’ - Times Literary Supplement‘It is an agonising book, but the agony is distanced…by attention to detail which sees right through the surface of events to their unconscious significance in the human psyche.’ The GuardianPaul Strathern is a British writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant Navy over a period of two years. His best-selling history books include ‘The Godfathers of the Renaissance’, ‘Napoleon in Egypt’, and ‘The Artist, the Philosopher and the Leonardo, Machiavelli and Borgia - a fateful collusion’.Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.
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