Iain Maclean's Cogadh Ruairidh (Ruairidh's War) is an account of
the first day of the Battle of the Somme through the eyes and the
experience of a Highland soldier, Ruairidh, and his two friends.
MacLean first describes the waiting period, when the soldiers'
emotions swing between tedium and high tension, fear and naive
overconfidence, and then, clearly and dispassionately, what the
three men encounter as they go over the top and advance towards the
enemy trenches - and the waiting machine guns. The novel follows
Ruairidh through his convalescence in France and his journey home,
where he struggles to come to terms with what has happened on that
awful day. Cogadh Ruairidh is a powerful evocation of one of the
grimmest days in the history of modern warfare. As an indictment of
the brutality and futility of war, it is all the more effective for
the fact that MacLean lets the events speak for themselves. With
chapter-by-chapter glossaries and summaries to assist Gaelic
learners, this is a most impressive debut novel from yet another
talented young Gaelic author.
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