Sebastian Faulks · 1993 · survival

Sebastian Faulks's 1993 novel. Before the Great War, the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford comes to Amiens and falls into a doomed affair with a married Frenchwoman. Years later he returns as an officer to the same countryside, now the churned hell of the Western Front - the tunnels and trenches of the Somme - where love, memory and unimaginable slaughter are bound together beneath the earth.

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   Amiens

   The French cathedral city where, before the war, Stephen Wraysford lodges with the Azaire family and begins a passionate, ruinous affair with Isabelle.

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   The Somme

   The Picardy battlefields where Stephen returns as an officer, leading men through the tunnels and over the top into the catastrophe of the 1916 offensive.