Author: Forester, C. S.
Price: $15.99
Category:Historical Fiction
Publication Date:2017-09-12T00:00:01Z
Pages:320
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:000827990X
ISBN:13:
Herbert Curzon is a former cavalry officer who earned fortuitous distinction in the Boer War. He knew little then; he learned nothing since. But the army, desperate for officers in the opening months of WW I, hands Curzon, a new division to train. A few months later his formations dissolve at the Somme, hosed down by German machine guns. Uninstructed, Curzon still thinks himself a leader. When a German offensive threatens his remaining troops, he gallops suicidally into the fighting. He prefers death to self-knowledge.
