HOW YOUNG THEY DIE

by Stuart Cloete ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, 1969

He had no ideas in his head that went beyond soldiering, hunting, shooting and making love."" Skip the hunting and you'll have a pretty good idea of Mr. Cloete's book which reduces to ""The killing-stuff. The love-stuff. Perhaps they are part of the same thing."" This then is a lumbering account of World War I as experienced by one Jim Hilton, ""lying doggo"" in the trenches or lying not so doggo in the beds of tarty Mona-Moon, and later Shelagh, who nurses him back to health. Actually Jim is wounded, twice, experiences delayed shell shock (latent fear of returning to fight) and with his second gunshot, has cause for worry that he may be put out of both kinds of action altogether. . . . Anyone who is unwilling to equate that ""nasty business war"" with a ""good show"" will find it's a long time--over there.

Pub Date: Jan. 1, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Trident

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1969

Categories: FICTION