Death Of A Hero
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some moderate loss; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Intact but worn.
A searing indictment of the generation destroyed by the First World War, Death of a Hero chronicles the life and death of George Winterbourne — artist, lover, and soldier — tracing his path from Edwardian England through the bohemian circles of pre-war London and ultimately into the mud and carnage of the Western Front. Richard Aldington draws on his own harrowing experience as a combatant to deliver a narrative of savage honesty, blending bitter irony with moments of lyrical intensity to capture how an entire civilization sleepwalked into catastrophe. Aldington's novel stands as one of the most uncompromising anti-war novels in the English language, placing it alongside Sassoon, Owen, and Remarque in the canon of Great War literature. Beneath its surface as a war narrative lies a fierce dissection of gender, modernity, and the hypocrisy of the British class system, rendered in prose that oscillates between controlled fury and elegiac mourning. For readers who believe they already know the literature of the trenches, this novel presents a reckoning that refuses to be forgotten.
Author: Richard Aldington
Format: Hardback
Published: 1929, Chatto & Windus
Genre: WW1
Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some moderate loss; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Intact but worn.
A searing indictment of the generation destroyed by the First World War, Death of a Hero chronicles the life and death of George Winterbourne — artist, lover, and soldier — tracing his path from Edwardian England through the bohemian circles of pre-war London and ultimately into the mud and carnage of the Western Front. Richard Aldington draws on his own harrowing experience as a combatant to deliver a narrative of savage honesty, blending bitter irony with moments of lyrical intensity to capture how an entire civilization sleepwalked into catastrophe. Aldington's novel stands as one of the most uncompromising anti-war novels in the English language, placing it alongside Sassoon, Owen, and Remarque in the canon of Great War literature. Beneath its surface as a war narrative lies a fierce dissection of gender, modernity, and the hypocrisy of the British class system, rendered in prose that oscillates between controlled fury and elegiac mourning. For readers who believe they already know the literature of the trenches, this novel presents a reckoning that refuses to be forgotten.