BOYS. WAR BOYS
David Mario Callan

220 pages on one downloadable pdf file. cost $12 (US) Available very soon. copyright (c) 2009 David Mario Callan. ISBN 978-1-906503-28-4

This is a book about two 'companions' from Yorkshire, Nigel Sorley and Isaac Aldington and whose lives became overshadowed by The First World War.

Nigel joined an Infantry battlion, but Isaac stayed behind. The book is about their relationship, it's about The Somme Offensive and the letters home which contain depictions of the immemorial cruelties of war. 'Those more precious that one can say. They do not die gracefully. They do not lie like any portrait could depict them. If lucky, they are bleak and bloody carrion, piled one atop the other and to be carried away on carts...'

The reader is taken into the experience of trench warfare, where Nigel gets killed.

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>>Written in the vernacular. Does contain true to nature and thus EXTREMELY GRAPHIC VIOLENCE. PLEASE NOTE: THIS RANKS AMONG THE MOST VIOLENT PORTRAIT EVER WRITTEN<<

Here is a piece of the story. An excerpt (abridged) from a letter sent home:

Lance Corporal Lewis, I touched where his jaw was smashed apart. The stretcher bearers couldn't get to him at first. Now....Now, he's something else, the poor bastard. The others, I pity the others too: The fallen. The bayonetted to death. The alive and folded in agony, their splattered flesh that kissed the earth. The castrated pals. The heads flying through the air, still screaming. The maniac, jagged and savage hatred. The wheels passing over their gaping mouths. The eerie, fixed eyes. The yonder caughing mines tearing limbs from men. The bodies being ripped to bleeding pieces. The huddled, trembling and fettered fear. The crying and scurrying away. The many limbs aflame. The choking and spitting fire. The cursing. The burning pins. The shrieking. The mocking. The contempt. The raining of spilled entrails. The citadels of agony. The unceasing jabbing of bayonets. The blades. The bleeding throats. The made blind. The drifting and stinking smoke. The many butchered and maggot infested boys. The many, many butchered boys. The bombing and rapid fire. The sucking mud and the blood-clotted slime. The rain. The rain. The rain. The rats. The poisoned air. The vomit strewn grapple. The strength of that quivvering, barbed wire. The piercing and slashing of faces. The grimaces. The paralysis. The frenzy. The frenzy in killing. The enemy around us! Die! Die! Die!...

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