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Yazan: Richard Toulouse
Seslendiren: Makeba Garraway
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A generation fed to the machine.Thomas Elsdon trades the quiet predictability of a shipping clerk’s life for the chaos of the Western Front. But as the patriotic fervour of the wars beginning fades into the mud of the Salient, he realizes the war is not a crusade, but a vast, unfeeling factory of death.From the terror of the first gas attacks, to the white chalk of Picardy, and back to the subterranean dread of the tunnel wars, Thomas is thrust into a conflict that reduces men to mere components. Alongside a dwindling group of survivors; including the cynical carpenter Jack and the fragile schoolteacher Johnson , he must navigate a world where the only certainty is the relentless turning of the gears.In the face of annihilation, Thomas uses his sketchbook to keep his sanity, capturing the human cost of a war that has forgotten the value of a life.©2026 Richard Toulouse (P)2026 Richard Toulouse 20th Century Genre Fiction Historical Fiction War & Military World War I
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I've already read and listened to a lot of historical fiction, but none of them delve into such detail as this book. It really captures how it must have felt to be part of the war machine, both for willing and unwilling participants. I highly recommend this book if you already know the general outline of the first world war and want to know what it was like for the soldiers. I dislike the jumps forward in time, but I understand that the book would become far too long if that hadn't been done.

In the beginning there are some issues with the narration; whenever a new character talks, it sounds very distant and quiet. This problem disappears later in the book, and the narration at the end is absolutely perfect. I do wish there was a longer silence after chapters, to really let the final sentence sink in each time. This narrator does an excellent job driving home the gravity of every situation, and seems perfectly chosen for this book

Makes you feel like you are in the trenches yourself

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