Somme Stations

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-02-01 Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher: Faber & Faber 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 Jims unit had been found dead.During the stand-off that follows. Jim and his comrades must operate by night the vitally important trains carrying munitions to the Front . through a ghostly landscape of shattered trees where high explosive and shrapnel shells rain down. Close co-operation and trust are vital. Yet proof piles up of an enemy within. and as a ferocious military policeman pursues his investigation into the original killing. the finger of accusation begins to point towards Jim himself.