The Human Kind

The Human Kind

By Alexander Baron

Genre:-Wartime Fiction/Historical Fiction

Pages:-192

Publisher:-The Imperial War Museum and is part of the IWM Wartime Classics series

Blurb:-MARKING THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUMS WARTIME CLASSICS SERIES

 Alexander Baron's remarkable Trilogy of the Second World War to be published together for the first time.

Spanning the Sicilian countryside to the brothels of Ostend, and the final book in Alexander Baron's War Trilogy, The Human Kind is a series of pithy vignettes reflective of the author's own wartime experiences.

 From the interminable days of training in Britain to brutal combat across Northwest Europe, the book depicts many of the men, women-and, in some cases, children-affected by the widespread reach of the Second World War.

 In his trademark spare prose, Baron's work provides an emotive and incisive snapshot into the lives of myriad characters during this tumultuous period in history,

 Based on Alexander Baron's own wartime experiences, this new edition of a 1953 classic includes an introduction from IWM which puts the work in historical context, and concludes the author's War Trilogy

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My Review:-This is the final book in Alexander Baron's War Trilogy. I haven't read the other two books in the trilogy, but now that I have read this powerful book I will be reading the other two books in the trilogy. The book is set out as 25 short stories, which can be read as one or a pick up and put down. Each story has an narrator, but not till the end that we are introduce as 'Alex' (Alexander Baron). Having military links in the family I found this book both interesting and emotional. I have to say there wasn't anything I didn't like about this book. At times I felt that Baron's was sitting with me telling me the stories, as he remembered them happening. I highly recommend that you read this book.