Journey's End (Penguin Modern Classics)

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As the climactic volume in Kevin Wilson’s acclaimed bomber war trilogy, Journey’s End chronicles the brutal endgame of a conflict that caused such devastation and tragedy on both sides.

Smoke-bombs are fired, the soldiers move towards the German trench, and a young German soldier is captured. From its initial twelve-week season at the Comedy Theatre from January 2004, it transferred to the Playhouse Theatre and the Duke of York's Theatre, finally closing on 18 February 2005. I am too upset to properly articulate my feelings about this, except that I had to lie down and weep for a little while, and I would die for Stanhope. Ben was so friendly making me feel very welcome in East Anglia and it immediately struck me how knowledgable he was not only about the company but also the wider bus industry and the external influences on it.Kept falling prey to the idea that it was rather clichéd but of course it is those, Blackadder Goes Forth etc, which are guilty of this. If we are to believe numerous accounts the stiff upper lip prevailed and the language of the time; rugger, chap, topping, jolly introduced a surreal quality to this living hell.

In 1918 a group of British officers wait in an underground shelter for the German army to begin what was then the largest military offensive in human history.Journey’s End is a play with fantastic dialogue that quickly establishes firm relationships between audience and character, in a performance that builds throughout to a climactic, heart-wrenching finale. He yells at Hibbert for no reason and argues with Raleigh over his preference at eating with private troops rather than with other officers. Second Lieutenant Trotter is a rotund officer commissioned from the ranks who likes his food; he cannot stand the war and counts down each hour that he serves in the front line by drawing circles onto a piece of paper and then colouring them in. ROBERT Cedric Sherriff was born in 1896 and educated at Kingston Grammar School and New College, Oxford. It's a beautiful part for an actor, in a play that's wonderfully lean and controlled – a claustrophobic, tense study of combat trauma in three efficient acts.

Warning: if you are looking for tales of heroism, sound battle strategies and the underlying theme of how sweet and noble it is to die for one's country, then this is not the book for you. Dialog is brisk and concrete, lacking lyrical passages, brooding monologues, or detailed recaps of off-stage events.Throughout the play, Sherriff slowly builds the suspense as attack threatens, and as he does so he explores his superbly developed characters and introduces a tone of dread but one with moments of dark humour and then small disputes between officers. Opposite the frontis lithograph is printed: "Il a ete tire de cet ouvrage, avant l'impression de 'edition ordinaire, 200 exemplaires numerotes de 1 a 200 sur velin pur fil lafuma, constituant l'edition originale. He still had that swiftly dispelled attitude that as well as doing his bit for King and Country, the war would provide adventure, allowing him to escape the deathly morass of office life.