Journey's End
- ISBN-10
- 0241333857
- ISBN-13
- 9780241333853
- Category
- World War, 1914-1918
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-01-04
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Author
- R. C. Sherriff
Description
The front lines of World War I may be in the battle-scarred fields of France, but inside this dugout the essence of England is intimately mixed with the hard-packed dirt of the walls and floor. Captain Stanhope will stand no shirking from the men in his command-- or from himself. After three years in and around the trenches, he is utterly exhausted and absolutely terrified. When Raleigh, a junior schoolmate from home, gets posted to Stanhope's company, the poor man is badly shaken. Hero worship is for sunny afternoons on the cricket pitch and leisurely discussions of Keats-- not for the horrors of war. Stanhope wants to believe Raleigh is just another soldier in the crowd. He tries to lose sight of him among Osborne, the former schoolmaster, Trotter, the proud gardener showing off photos of his prize hollyhocks, and the good-humored Hardy. Yet, when the long-anticipated enemy attack explodes around them, Stanhope and Raleigh must come to terms with the age-old tragedy of battle.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The Adventures of Heine
By Edgar WallaceHe was marketed as the 'King of Thrillers' and they gave him the trademark image of a trilby, a cigarette holder and a yellow Rolls Royce.
-
Edgar Wallace - The Standard History Of The War -
By Edgar WallaceHe was marketed as the 'King of Thrillers' and they gave him the trademark image of a trilby, a cigarette holder and a yellow Rolls Royce.
-
A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
By Aaron Noble, Keith Swaney, Vicki WeissNewton Baker, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of War, worried that New Yorkers would object to their sons being the only ... Harris, Stephen L., Duffy's War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan, and the Irish Fighting 69thin World WarI ...
-
The Great War, 1914-1918
By Ian Frederick William Beckett"In this seminal work, Ian F. W. Beckett challenges the cliched images of the Great War that have come to dominate popular culture.
-
The Western Front
By Rosemary ReesCovers the Schlieffen Plan and the main battles of 1914. Covers the revised content for National Curriculum History at Key Stage 3
-
The Red Cross Barge
By Marie Belloc Lowndes, Mrs. Belloc LowndesThe Red Cross Barge
-
1914-1918: The History of the First World War
By David StevensonAccount of the major events of the First World War.
-
History of the 43rd and 52nd (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) Light Infantry in the Great War, 1914-1918
By Simon Harris, J. E. H. NevilleHistory of the 43rd and 52nd (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) Light Infantry in the Great War, 1914-1918
-
Uncle Andy's Diary (1916-1919): The War Experiences of Andrew Stewart Dewar
By Andrew Stewart DewarUncle Andy's Diary (1916-1919): The War Experiences of Andrew Stewart Dewar
-
The Kingdom of the Blind
By Edward Phillips OppenheimThe Kingdom of the Blind