Paperback, 496 pages
English language
Published June 1, 1997 by Vintage.
Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.
Well written story of a British soldier a bit before and during the war.
Well written with interesting insights into the inner workings of that unique war which was the first one done with modern mechanized instruments of destruction.
In my opinion worth the read just for that.
