Mainly, he follows ordinary soldiers’ lives, illuminating their fate as the end approaches. Persico recounts the war’s bloody climax in a cinematic style that evokes All Quiet on the Western Front, Grand Illusion, and Paths of Glory.
A vivid account of what the soldiers in the trenches of World War I faced in this "war to end all wars." I am so glad that my father, a veteran of The Great War , served in the USA during that conflict and was spared the horrors of trench warfare.