Intimate Places of Fortune. The Ice March of the Baltic Fleet (set of 2 books)

Before you is the most terrifying, the most brutal, the most uncompromising book about World War I. A book in which every word is the truth.

Frederick Manning (1882–1935) was born in Australia and achieved early fame as a poet, moving to England in 1903. Manning was frail from childhood but possessed an indomitable spirit; thus, with the onset of World War I, he managed to volunteer for the front despite several refusals. He found himself in the thick of the Battle of the Somme — one of the bloodiest battles of the Western Front. What he saw and experienced had a severe impact on his subsequent life, and in 1929 he published the novel 'Intimate Places of Fortune,' in which one of the characters, Born, was modeled after Manning himself.

'Intimate Places of Fortune' has become a benchmark of military prose in English literature. It is no coincidence that figures as diverse as Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound listed Frederick Manning among their teachers.