The Trench Soldier

This wasn't a novel so much as a series of sketches. It had a very unfinished feel about it, but was still a pretty good soldier's view of WWI if you can ignore some glaring errors. The most glaring is the defense of the Maginot Line, which wasn't constructed until decades later & is one of the great......more

This book tells the story of the first world war's trench warfare through the eyes of a soldier's point of view and it is a grim view. What sums up Casca's experience in the war is that it was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight. Many of Casca's comrades were Welsh coal miners who went from the......more

Casca goes to war in Flanders' Fields after a brief stint as a coal miner. Reliving his time in the Roman copper mines as a slave. Sadler seems to have found a voice for commentary about the societal impact of war a bit more than in many of the previous novels. Casca ends up on a ship bound for Gall......more

This one clues you into the possibility that not all of Sadler's race cars were on the track. A really weird and unnecessary rape scene(and our hero is one of the rapists) of a mother and daughter rivals Stephen R. Donaldson for tastelessness.......more

A better outing than some of the recent books. The story of the WWI was interesting even though the story was very predictable and the ending wasn't a surprise. It could have been better if it had brought back in the Brotherhood, who've not been mentioned in many of the last few books.......more