In memoriam alice winn5/28/2023 Visceral, heartbreaking but full of heart, this is a masterpiece of war literature.” “A central relationship so utterly convincing that it will leave you bereft. Winn makes such important points about class, destruction and the loss of innocence. In Memoriam is both a deeply moving love story and a visceral evocation of the Great War, impressively free of cliché. “One of the best debuts I’ve read in recent years: immersive, rousing, tender and devastating. Order a copy of In Memoriam (Durch das große Feuer) in Germany Now death surrounds them in all its grim reality, often inches away, and no one knows who will be next. To Gaunt’s horror, Ellwood rushes to join him at the front, and the rest of their classmates soon follow. When Gaunt’s family asks him to enlist to forestall the anti-German sentiment they face, Gaunt does so immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. Gaunt, half German, is busy fighting his own private battle–an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the glamorous, charming Ellwood–without a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. It’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight.
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