Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

The joy of the Great War memoir

Given a choice between Siegfried Sassoon and a novel or a newspaper, there’s really no contest

Given a choice between Edmund Blunden’s Undertones of War and this morning’s newspaper headline, it’s really no contest. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

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