An eloquent and painful book... Clark leaves the impression that vanity and stupidity were the main ingredients of the massacres of 1915. He writes searingly and unforgettably
George Malcolm Thomson, Evening Standard
Mr Clark writes with verve, venom and real feeling for the men whose lives the brasshats squandered
Paul Johnson, New Statesman
A shell-burst of a book
The Economist
An eloquent and painful book... Clark leaves the impression that vanity and stupidity were the main ingredients of the massacres of 1915. He writes searingly and unforgettably
George Malcolm Thomson, Evening Standard
Mr Clark writes with verve, venom and real feeling for the men whose lives the brasshats squandered
Paul Johnson, New Statesman
A shell-burst of a book
The Economist
An eloquent and painful book... Clark leaves the impression that vanity and stupidity were the main ingredients of the massacres of 1915. He writes searingly and unforgettably
George Malcolm Thomson, Evening Standard
Mr Clark writes with verve, venom and real feeling for the men whose lives the brasshats squandered