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Death of a Hero
About this book
First published in 1929 and now public domain in the US and Canada, ''Death of a Hero'' is the story of a young English artist named George Winterbourne who enlists in the army at the beginning of World War I. The book is narrated by a first-person narrator who knows and serves with the main character. The author Aldington, a veteran of World War I, wrote the work as largely autobiographical and claimed that his novel was accurate in terms of speech and style. It contains extensive colloquial speech, including profanity, discussion of sexuality and graphic descriptions of the war and of trench life. There was extensive censorship in England and many war novels had been banned or burned as a result. Today, this is considered one of the great war novels of World War 1.
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Table of contents
- PROLOGUE
- PART I
- PART II
- PART III
- EPILOGUE