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Hanneke
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:) he has a nice cat...
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Diogenes
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The Promise seems to be quite lacking in any so far: competent but gruelling. I might be going a bit early with this judgement.
Hanneke
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I actually am loving it! The use of language is inspired! And he really puts across a feeling of being in South Africa, without laying it on thick.
Columba
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I’m loving it too; though can quite see that the writing style might not be everyone’s cup of tea.
LindsD
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Enjoyed A night in with Brian Bilston. Am ashamed to admit that I didn't know that that wasn't his real name/persona.
Diogenes
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I’ve met Brian in person, just saying :-) Some might remember I wrote a poem to commemorate the event.
LindsD
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Thats fab. I have envy
Diogenes
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Enjoying The Promise more now, it is building nicely.

I'm also reading From The City, From The Plough, by Alexander Baron, a novel

about a battalion of soldiers in the second world war. It is incredibly poignant, simply told but brutally honest. It was based upon Baron's own wartime experience.

"With an economy of language that belies its emotional impact, From the City, From the Plough is a vivid and moving account of the fate of these men as they embark for the beaches of Normandy and advance into France, where the battalion suffers devastating casualties."

Anthony Beevor said 'Alexander Baron's From the City, From the Plough is undoubtedly one of the very greatest British novels of the Second World War and provides the most honest and authentic account of front line life for an infantryman in North West Europe.'
DazTheSlug
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From The City, From The Plough sounds like my kind of thing Dio thanks :o)
best "ordinary soldiers' experience" book I've read so far is "Unknown Soldiers" by Vaino Linna which is from the Finnish POV, so would be good to find something similar British

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