Drama-Lovers Book Club

 The Butterfly:

Finally got around to reading this classic anti-war novel which described the physical and mental traumas soldiers suffered during WWI.

I'd been away for a few months so I've been checking out what I missed.

Your post about EM Remarque's book (read it ages ago!)made me immediately think of Sebastian Faulk's Birdsong. Have you read it? I still remember the feeling of being punched in the gut by this amazing book.

Someone I know came back yesterday from a school trip visiting sites of the first world war (Verdun etc.) and he was devastated with the realization of the horrors of that war. Or any war, for that matter. The cemeteries with endless white crosses, monumental walls with the names of the missing, tunnels and trenches.....all of that made him so sad!