Search results for Norman Mailer.

The Bloody Hand by Blaise Cendrars

/world-war-i-book-reviews/the-bloody-hand-by-blaise-cendrars/

The Bloody Hand is the work of one of France’s literary greats.  This is a new edition from Nicholas Baupré This limited edition hardback has been produced with crafts skills. Considerable thought has been given to the design, the layout of text on the page and the wonderful selection of art, drawings and coloured pictures from the trenches. Cend…


Her Privates We by Frederick Manning

/world-war-i-book-reviews/her-privates-we-by-frederick-manning/

There is an introduction from the author and poet Edmund Blunden; he describes ‘Her Privates We’ as a ‘new kind of candid, reflexive writing’. Ernest Hemingway loved the book. It had me thinking of Norman Mailer or Henry Miller. It is certainly from the same Pantheon as Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), Robert Graves (Goodbye t…