He began with the well-known classics – Goodbye to All That, All Quiet on the Western Front, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, but then discovered that there were thousands of other books to explore.Īfter some time, Simon Hardman Lea came to think that perhaps men and women deal with war as they do all other extreme challenges in life – taking refuge in the safety of routine, in humour, in friendship, love and hate. Those were the questions in author SJ Hardman Lea's mind many years ago as he started reading factual accounts and novels set in the First World War. Why are there many photographs of young men smiling and laughing, even in the trenches of the front lines? How did anyone survive and thrive when facing the extremes of danger? Much has been said and written about the ghastliness of life on the Western Front in the First World war.
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