Classic. Written about the Napoleonic Wars Peninsular Campaigns of Wellington from the POV of a private that is cut-off from his unit, but continues to fight the best that he knows how. Years of training and fighting have made him singular of purpose. He will never know the effects of his actions on the campaign, but he will forever know the effects his actions have had on himself and those with whom he ran during those wintery months along the front.
See Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls for a companion novel. Forester and Hemingway met up at some point during the genesis of their novels and the parallels are similar, although the subject matter is 100 years apart.
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