Fortune's Intimate Places

Before you is the most terrifying, the most brutal, the most uncompromising book about the First World War. A book where every word is truth. Frederick Manning 1882–1935 was born in Australia and gained some fame as a poet at a young age, and in 1903 he moved to England. Manning had suffered from poor health since childhood but possessed an indomitable spirit, and thus with the onset of the First World War, despite several rejections, he managed to join the front as a volunteer. He found himself in the midst of the Battle of the Somme – one of the bloodiest battles of the Western Front. What he saw and experienced left a serious imprint on his subsequent life, and in 1929 he published the novel "Intimate Places of Fortune," one of the characters, Born, being a prototype of Manning himself. "Intimate Places of Fortune" became a benchmark of military prose in English literature. It is no coincidence that Frederick Manning was mentioned among the teachers by such diverse authors as Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound.