I have to be honest and say I did not finish it, because I got to a ‘no more‘ point round about the time of the awful sex descriptions and my reservations are all about the writing and just kind of a icky feeling - also there is a character named Jack Firebrace, he is manly and a former miner and rugged and...his name is Jack Firebrace, how do you take that seriously? I had to read a lot of WWI fiction in college and it’s All Quiet on the Western Front/Regeneration that really dominate my memories of that period.