A soldier falls asleep on duty and is threatened with being court-martialled. An officer lies in mud, fighting for his life and the life of his men. A young man walks across Waterloo Bridge, explosives in his rucksack, heart pounding. In this powerfully moving book, Faulks shows us the true face of war. These are stories of death and survival, of hope and despair, and of ordinary people whose lives will never be the same again.
Selected from the booksBirdsong,A Possible LifeandA Week in Decemberby Sebastian Faulks
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Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulkss books includeA Possible Life,Human Traces,On Green Dolphin Street,Engleby,Birdsong,A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.
