Her Privates We

First published privately in 1929 as The Middle Parts of Fortune, Her Privates We is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspective of Bourne, an ordinary private. A raw and shockingly honest portrait of men engaged in war, ''that peculiarly human activity'', the original edition was subject to ''prunings and excisions'' because the bluntness of language was thought to make the boo...