The Secret Battle by A. P. Herbert

"The Secret Battle" by A. P. Herbert is a novel published in 1919. Drawing from Herbert's own experiences as an infantry officer in World War I, it follows Harry Penrose, a sensitive Oxford student turned soldier whose spirit gradually deteriorates under relentless combat stress. As his self-doubt deepens and his commanding officer subjects him to increasingly dangerous duties, Penrose struggles to maintain his resolve. The novel presents an unflinching examination of war's psychological toll and the military justice system's treatment of mentally exhausted soldiers. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Read or download for free

How to read Url Size
Read now! https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35164.html.images 298 kB
EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35164.epub3.images 350 kB
EPUB (older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35164.epub.images 353 kB
EPUB (no images, older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35164.epub.noimages 185 kB
Kindle https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35164.kf8.images 444 kB
older Kindles https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35164.kindle.images 424 kB
Plain Text UTF-8 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35164.txt.utf-8 286 kB
Download HTML (zip) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35164/pg35164-h.zip 315 kB
There may be more files related to this item.

About this eBook

Author Herbert, A. P. (Alan Patrick), 1890-1971
Title The Secret Battle
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Battle
Credits Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 75.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
Subject War stories
Category Text
EBook-No. 35164
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Aug 29, 2014
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
Downloads 345 downloads in the last 30 days.
Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free!