Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War

Birdsong: A Novel of Love and WarDescription by Sebastian Faulks Paperback Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks

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Edward Butts offers a compelling portrait of people trying to make sense of a war with little evident logic

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