E P F Lynch
Praise for Somme Mud
As haunting and graphic a description of trench warfare as any I have read... this is a warrior's tale... a great read and a moving eye-witness account of a living hell from which few emerged unscathed
Daily Express
Compares to All Quiet on the Western Front... Both are front-line memoirs of men steadily becoming more professional and more disillusioned... Both are magnificently written
Prof William Gammage
Here is the stink and stench of war... horrifying, scarifying and very humbling as well
Herald Sun
As haunting and graphic a description of trench warfare as any I have read... this is a warrior's tale... a great read and a moving eye-witness account of a living hell from which few emerged unscathed
Daily Express
Compares to All Quiet on the Western Front... Both are front-line memoirs of men steadily becoming more professional and more disillusioned... Both are magnificently written
Prof William Gammage
Here is the stink and stench of war... horrifying, scarifying and very humbling as well
Herald Sun
As haunting and graphic a description of trench warfare as any I have read... this is a warrior's tale... a great read and a moving eye-witness account of a living hell from which few emerged unscathed
Daily Express
Compares to All Quiet on the Western Front... Both are front-line memoirs of men steadily becoming more professional and more disillusioned... Both are magnificently written
Prof William Gammage
Here is the stink and stench of war... horrifying, scarifying and very humbling as well
Herald Sun