Ysenda Maxtone Graham

When No Man’s Land is home

Just when you think you're impervious to the terrors of the first world war, Helen Dunmore's The Lie cuts through like a knife

A wounded soldier is carried through the mud near Boesinghe during the battle of Passchendaele in Flanders Photo: Getty

  • The Lie

    Helen Dunmore

    Hutchinson, pp. 294

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