What I'm Reading Now -- The Secret Battle

When I was at school in London six years ago (whoa! Six years!), I read The Secret Battle. I was going to read it again while we were there, but I'm a little behind. Better late than never.

It's the (semi-autobiographical) story of Harry Penrose, who abandons his studies at Oxford to enlist in the British Army during World War I. It's been a while since I read it, but as I recall, the focus is on Harry's struggle with the daily grind of life in the trenches (pretty typical for WWI stuff), and his struggle with the military system.