Flanders eBook Patricia Anthony
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Flanders is the breakout novel by Patricia Anthony, whose award-winning science fiction has transcended the genre through the sheer power of her storytelling. Anthony’s first true mainstream novel, it is a powerful evocation of the First World War—and the passage between life and death that reveals itself to one young soldier.
World War I, Flanders, Northern France
The British trenches grow wet and foul. For Travis Lee Stanhope, a Texan sharpshooter serving in an English unit, the war is not hell, but home. Each night he ventures into No Man’s Land between his comrades and the German trenches, and waits. At dawn, he begins his methodical sniping of enemy troops. Then he returns. His confirmed kill list is exemplary.
But Travis Lee is changing. His senses are ravaged by the unending scream of shells overhead. His mind is numbed by too many rations of rum. His soul is bled dry by the constant death all around him.
And yet, in his dreams, something still lives. He sees a world like the war, yet unlike, where the living are the same as the walking dead. The people there are his comrades killed in action. Sometimes they are stranded with him on the battlefield. Sometimes they lie in glass-covered graves in an Eden-like cemetery. He tries to ease their pain. But no one can ease his pain. And it will take more than death, and more than dreams, to make Travis Lee realize that he may have a function in this war beyond killing his enemies.
Flanders eBook Patricia Anthony
This is a book that captures the days of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The book begins before the Battle of the Somme; it wasn’t until after the Great War had concluded that the two choices of names – one a water way, the other of a small town nearby – had garnered the name through the British Nomenclature Division of Battles. It was this Battle that ended the German attempts to take Verdun. What is entailed within the pages of this wonderful novel is the scene of what the normal British and Canadian grunt would have faced during this tumultuous affair. In my opinion FM Haig was a pompous “giggy’ who thought of losses as nothing more than “acceptable losses” – his gains in this battle from 1 July – 18 November 1916 gained little ground and cost thousands of lives; it was a horrific attempt at trying to release pressure on the French lines while also attempting to take ground from the Hun. The amazing thing about the First World War is how for Europe the armaments had developed from the time of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 and that the tactics changed little. This is true for all sides of this war. As an interesting note – when this war concluded the British Empire owed money for each round fired upon her enemies and this is something well-kept from history; but, is underscored in the dealings with regard to Krupp Armaments and their near 500 years of existence.Ms. Anthony is quite the detailed author, she had to have spent time as a researcher to this topic, and I speculate did this on her own time (and likely for enjoyment.) The only thing I have in common with Ms. Anthony is that at one time we both worked for the BELO Corporation; she with the Dallas Morning News and myself with the Riverside Press Enterprise; I never met Ms. Anthony, but I could feel her writing of pain on each page – pain that grunt feels. A grunt throughout History is the same person – only the technology, Generals, and armaments change – men are men in these holes and she brings to life the severe crap the hole existence is for men who have to live in those places. Her ability to tell the story, place it together and provide the back drop to the larger events in the most miniscule of detail is nothing short of outstanding. Her knowledge of phraseology, weaponry, equipment, uniforms, terms of the era and other such detail is what makes this book "believable."
Without giving the story away, we see a young Texan join the B.E.F. in the British Army and co-mingled with Scots, Irish, English, Welsh, and Canadians serving in the same duty bound outfits. During the course of this reading the book that came to mind continuously was “All Quiet on the Western Front.” This novel by Ms. Anthony was written some 70 years after Remarque would place his experiences to paper. Nationalism is not a bad thing – if anything it gives people a sense of belief in self, family, country and the duty to be good citizens. How often have these veterans been betrayed, lied to, propagandized, and/or able to make a distinction of the truth from the talking heads that speak?
I read this book in part in honor of my Belgian Born Father, and my Belgian Grandfather that served in the Great War. What I came away with was the cemented belief of how a generation of men over a century ago were “expendable” to the people ranked atop the pivot on all sides of this unfortunate war. The “war to end all wars” was really in the end the “war to set all wars” during the course of the 20th century up and until the Persian Gulf War of 1991 with Desert Storm. The middle east was first split as we know in 1917 with the Belfour Declaration – even as the fields of Flanders and of France were bloodied with a youth that would be forever and nearly forgotten
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Flanders eBook Patricia Anthony Reviews
Strictly speaking Flanders falls outside of Anthony's science fiction novels. There is an element of fantasy to this fine novel. It's also one of Anthony's finest accomplishments to date. I'm looking forward to her future novels from her. It's difficult to find a novelist that manages to take genre conventions and turn them on their head--and write a great novel as well. Anthony manages to do both with this dark, compelling look at WW1.
Really different war book. I read that other reviews and it is hard to put Flanders in any kind of category, which is a good thing. Yes there are war story elements, mystical elements, and relationship elements all going on at varying points of the book, but none ever were really dominant to the story. The best compliment I can give it is I thought about what I had read days afterwards which for a book is always a good thing.
This was a powerful and triumphant novel of the First World War. Travis Lee Stanhope, an American soldier fighting for the British in France, eloquently tells the story. We suffer with him not only as he fights the war against the Germans, but also as he fights an internal war against the ghosts that haunt him. Travis fights loneliness, alcoholism, homophobia and anti-Semitism.
There are all kinds of nastiness in this novel. It is gory and realistic. Some scenes are as horrifying as you could imagine. But ultimately, this was one of the most sensitive and moving novels I have ever read. Recently I have read some excellent war novels (The Black Flower, Fields of Fire, among others). This was as good as (if not better than) any of them. Highly recommended, do NOT miss this one.
I was astonished how good this novel was. I'd read some of this histories of the battle of Flanders, and wondered what a novelistic treatment might be. Patricia Anthony excavate and eviscerates a level of war experience that proves that the pen can sometimes be even mightier than the sword. The trench-scarred truths of the First World War are on full display here -- the terror, the boredom, the corpses, the mud of No Man's Land littered with shells and rot and rats and skulls, the whores behind the back trenches, the grabassing and jokes, the incessant rain of artillery, the utter randomness of the next death, the ever-darkening despair. Anthony, who died in 2013, cut her teeth as a science fiction writer, but this is work of a far deeper calibration, the most honest view of dying and death writ on a canvas where everything else eventually ceases to matter. Surprises like these come out of nowhere, like gifts from the gods.
This is a book that captures the days of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The book begins before the Battle of the Somme; it wasn’t until after the Great War had concluded that the two choices of names – one a water way, the other of a small town nearby – had garnered the name through the British Nomenclature Division of Battles. It was this Battle that ended the German attempts to take Verdun. What is entailed within the pages of this wonderful novel is the scene of what the normal British and Canadian grunt would have faced during this tumultuous affair. In my opinion FM Haig was a pompous “giggy’ who thought of losses as nothing more than “acceptable losses” – his gains in this battle from 1 July – 18 November 1916 gained little ground and cost thousands of lives; it was a horrific attempt at trying to release pressure on the French lines while also attempting to take ground from the Hun. The amazing thing about the First World War is how for Europe the armaments had developed from the time of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 and that the tactics changed little. This is true for all sides of this war. As an interesting note – when this war concluded the British Empire owed money for each round fired upon her enemies and this is something well-kept from history; but, is underscored in the dealings with regard to Krupp Armaments and their near 500 years of existence.
Ms. Anthony is quite the detailed author, she had to have spent time as a researcher to this topic, and I speculate did this on her own time (and likely for enjoyment.) The only thing I have in common with Ms. Anthony is that at one time we both worked for the BELO Corporation; she with the Dallas Morning News and myself with the Riverside Press Enterprise; I never met Ms. Anthony, but I could feel her writing of pain on each page – pain that grunt feels. A grunt throughout History is the same person – only the technology, Generals, and armaments change – men are men in these holes and she brings to life the severe crap the hole existence is for men who have to live in those places. Her ability to tell the story, place it together and provide the back drop to the larger events in the most miniscule of detail is nothing short of outstanding. Her knowledge of phraseology, weaponry, equipment, uniforms, terms of the era and other such detail is what makes this book "believable."
Without giving the story away, we see a young Texan join the B.E.F. in the British Army and co-mingled with Scots, Irish, English, Welsh, and Canadians serving in the same duty bound outfits. During the course of this reading the book that came to mind continuously was “All Quiet on the Western Front.” This novel by Ms. Anthony was written some 70 years after Remarque would place his experiences to paper. Nationalism is not a bad thing – if anything it gives people a sense of belief in self, family, country and the duty to be good citizens. How often have these veterans been betrayed, lied to, propagandized, and/or able to make a distinction of the truth from the talking heads that speak?
I read this book in part in honor of my Belgian Born Father, and my Belgian Grandfather that served in the Great War. What I came away with was the cemented belief of how a generation of men over a century ago were “expendable” to the people ranked atop the pivot on all sides of this unfortunate war. The “war to end all wars” was really in the end the “war to set all wars” during the course of the 20th century up and until the Persian Gulf War of 1991 with Desert Storm. The middle east was first split as we know in 1917 with the Belfour Declaration – even as the fields of Flanders and of France were bloodied with a youth that would be forever and nearly forgotten
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