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UPC/Barcode: 9328511021590
It is a place 8ft wide, 600 miles long, man-made and God-forsaken!
Set in the 48 hours leading up to the catastrophic attack on the German lines on 1st July 1916 that signalled the start of the Battle of the Somme, this is the poignant, intense story of young men at war, as seen through the eyes of seventeen year old Billy Macfarlane.
As Billy and his squad are thrown into war, they experience trauma, friendship, animosity, nostalgic recollection and the prospect of their agonisingly short lives coming to an imminent and sudden end.
As the boys wait for the attack, alternately excited and terrified, a series of events begins to undermine and fracture the solidarity of the group and for the first time our young soldiers have to confront the awful truth of what they are about to undergo. The whistles blow, the boys clamber over the top and so they advance on to meet their individual and tragic, destinies.
It is a place 8ft wide, 600 miles long, man-made and God-forsaken!
Set in the 48 hours leading up to the catastrophic attack on the German lines on 1st July 1916 that signalled the start of the Battle of the Somme, this is the poignant, intense story of young men at war, as seen through the eyes of seventeen year old Billy Macfarlane.
As Billy and his squad are thrown into war, they experience trauma, friendship, animosity, nostalgic recollection and the prospect of their agonisingly short lives coming to an imminent and sudden end.
As the boys wait for the attack, alternately excited and terrified, a series of events begins to undermine and fracture the solidarity of the group and for the first time our young soldiers have to confront the awful truth of what they are about to undergo. The whistles blow, the boys clamber over the top and so they advance on to meet their individual and tragic, destinies.
