From the City from the Plough Author:Alexander Baron A war novel which charts the history of the fictional Fifth Battalion of the Wessex Regiment (based on the actual 5th Wiltshire regiment) during the Second World War from the waiting for D-Day onward. Reflects on the miseries of war and of the battles which took place in France in 1944. First published in 1948, it sold over a million copies and ... more »was hailed as a masterpiece on both sides of the Atlantic.« less