Why read Somme Mud?

Book cover of Somme Mud: The War Experiences of an Infantryman in France 1916-1919

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'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it. We see it, feel it, eat it and curse…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Somme Mud as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Andrew Dunkley

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This is a first-person account of life in the trenches in France and Belgium in WW1. It’s actually a difficult read in places because his writing style is quite unusual and by no means eloquent, but once you get used to it, it’s truly intriguing. He wrote the book with a pencil on exercise books after the war, probably to try and exorcise his demons. It wasn’t until his family found it and took it to a publisher that his story came to light, a very frank and occasionally morbid description of war at its very worst but an essential…

From Andrew's list on The best books about World War 1 in the trenches.