The Somme Stations

WINNER OF THE ELLIS PETERS AWARD 'Superb.' Lancashire Evening Post 'Richly satisfying.' Sunday Telegraph On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival - even before they departed for France, a member of Jim's unit had been found dead. Du...