Love and the Loveless (1958) was the seventh entry in Henry
Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight
spanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second
World War. The year covered by this novel, 1917, was perhaps the
darkest of the Great War, with widespread mutinies in the French
Army after the disastrous Nivelle offensive. Phillip Maddison is
now a young transport officer, tending pack animals, surviving amid
devastation and death. His courage, sustained by poetry, by
comradeship, by the comfort of whisky and water, is perhaps
unnatural; but amid the charnel house of battle he endures, in a
way of life so alien to those at home that it might be the dark
side of the moon. 'Williamson's style is romantic, though rarely
sentimental, and his sensuous response to nature is fresh and
surprising.' Anthony Burgess, Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in
English since 1939
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