Somme Mud - The Complete Edition: An Australian soldier on the Western Front

Where courage drowned, mateship endured, and survival was never certain.

Written by returned Australian soldier Private Edward Lynch, Somme Mud stands as one of the most powerful accounts of the First World War. Drafted in pencil across twenty school exercise books in the late 1920s and preserved against the odds, it is a work born directly from experience.

Told through the voice of ‘Nulla’, Lynch’s fictionalised self, the narrative follows seven Australian soldiers from their departure from...