From an interest sparked by a family involvement in the Young Citizen Volunteers and the First World War, author Steven Moore has crafted an extensive, revealing and sympathetic account of the organiz
"Steven Moore['s] criticism is a model of clarity and intelligent advocacy." — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker"Steven Moore attained literary stardom when he helped rescue William Gaddis' The Recognition
At 7.30am on 1st July 1916, some 60,000 men climbed out of their trenches and walked across No-Man’s-Land and into the history books. The Battle of the Somme, which was to rage for another four and a
