Some Do Not... is Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, landmark novel about the World war One and the events leading up to it. He perfectly captures the chaos and insanity that enveloped the word. Christopher Tietjens is an officer and a gentleman. We follow Tietjens as he tries to navigate a marriage fraught with infidelity and a war fraught with savagery, each tears him apart in it's own way. A stunnly complex and poignant novel.
The finest novel about the First World War" -- Anthony Burgess