At Night All Blood Is Black [Paperback] Staff Recommended Storm of Steel illuminates not

Storm of Steel illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war

the 1995 Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road

Austria-Hungary

the personalities and the political maneuvers

Eyewitness: World War I highlights the highs and lows of this four year battle in a format appropriate for readers from 8-12 years of age

At Night All Blood Is Black [Paperback] Staff Recommended Storm of Steel illuminates notDescription by David Diop Paperback Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so called Chocolat soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Mans Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfas mind