{"product_id":"somme-mud-the-complete-edition-by-edward-lynch-9781923720206","title":"Somme Mud - The Complete Edition","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhere courage drowned, mateship endured, and survival was never certain.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by returned Australian soldier Private Edward Lynch, \u003ci\u003eSomme Mud\u003c\/i\u003e stands as one of the most powerful accounts of the First World War. Drafted in pencil across twenty school exercise books in the late 1920s and preserved against the odds, it is a work born directly from experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTold through the voice of ‘Nulla’, Lynch’s fictionalised self, the narrative follows seven Australian soldiers from their departure from Sydney to the battlefields of France and Belgium. What unfolds is not a story of glory, but of endurance — of men navigating a landscape defined by cold, exhaustion and constant danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the frozen trenches of the Somme winter to the grinding offensives of 1917 and the final advance of 1918, Nulla and his mates move through the defining campaigns of the war. As a battalion runner, he crosses shattered ground under fire, carrying messages through terrain littered with the dead — a role where survival is uncertain and every journey may be the last.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoments of humour and defiance sit alongside hardship, offering insight into the character of the Australian soldiers and the bonds that sustained them. These glimpses of ordinary life — on troopships, behind the lines, or in fleeting respites from the front — give the narrative depth and authenticity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning the Somme, Bullecourt, Ypres, Passchendaele and the Allied advance, \u003ci\u003eSomme Mud\u003c\/i\u003e captures both the scale of the war and the experience of those who lived through it. Immediate, unsentimental and deeply human, it remains one of the defining Australian accounts of the Western Front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA defining account of the Australian experience in the Great War.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUncompromising, vivid and enduring.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47894143860972,"sku":"9781923720206","price":41.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781923720206-somme-mud-the-complete-edition.jpg?v=1783219145","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/somme-mud-the-complete-edition-by-edward-lynch-9781923720206","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}