SIX WEEKS
The short and gallant life of a British officer in
the First World War
By John Lewis-Stempel.
Orion. 368 pages. £9.99
ISBN 978 1 409 102 144
If you only read one book about the First World War in this centenary year, let me suggest that this might be it.
An inspiring military and social history, it tells the story of the thousands of junior officers who lived and died among the trenches and in no man’s land on the western front.
