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From the City, From the Plough

Alexander Baron
Chapters (29)
  1. Cover
  2. FROM THE CITY, FROM THE PLOUGH
  3. About the Author
  4. Introduction
  5. PROLOGUE
  6. CHAPTER ONE
  7. CHAPTER TWO
  8. CHAPTER THREE
  9. CHAPTER FOUR
  10. CHAPTER FIVE
  11. CHAPTER SIX
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT
  14. CHAPTER NINE
  15. CHAPTER TEN
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  17. CHAPTER TWELVE
  18. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  20. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  22. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  23. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  24. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Cover

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PRAISE FOR IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM WARTIME CLASSICS

‘If poetry was the supreme literary form of the First World War then, as if in riposte, in the Second World War, the English novel came of age. This wonderful series is an exemplary reminder of that fact. Great novels were written about the Second World War and we should not forget them.’

WILLIAM BOYD

‘It’s wonderful to see these four books given a new lease of life because all of them are classic novels from the Second World War written by those who were there, experienced the fear, anguish, pain and excitement first-hand and whose writings really do shine an incredibly vivid light onto what it was like to live and fight through that terrible conflict.’

JAMES HOLLAND, Historian, author and TV presenter

‘The Imperial War Museum has performed a valuable public service by reissuing these four absolutely superb novels covering four very different aspects of the Second World War. I defy you to choose which is best: I keep changing my mind!’

ANDREW ROBERTS, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny

‘The Imperial War Museum has performed a valuable public service by reissuing these four absolutely superb novels covering four very different aspects of the Second World War. I defy you to choose which is best: I keep changing my mind!’

‘Alexander Baron’s From the City, From the Plough is undoubtedly one of the very greatest British novels of the Second World War and provides the most honest and authentic account of front line life for an infantryman in North West Europe.’

ANTONY BEEVOR

‘A wonderful novel: vivid, rich, profoundly moving and beautifully written by an author who was actually there, it is a novel that takes the reader into the heart of the Normandy campaign. Quite simply, it’s one of the finest novels to have been written about the soldier’s experience of the Second World War.’

JAMES HOLLAND, Historian, author and TV presenter

FROM THE CITY, FROM THE PLOUGH

Alexander Baron

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About the Author

Alexander Baron (1917–1999)

ALEXANDER BARON was born on 4 December 1917. He grew up in Hackney, East London, and became active in the 1930s in left-wing politics and the anti-fascist movement. During the Second World War he served with the Pioneer Corps in Sicily, Italy and northern France, basing his first novel, From the City, From the Plough on his experiences of the D-Day landings and the allied advance into Normandy. The novel was both a critical and popular success, establishing Baron’s reputation as a skilled, powerful and authentic writer. It was praised by V.S. Pritchett as ‘the only war book that has conveyed any sense of reality to me’. Other reviewers wrote: ‘every reader who fought in Europe will acclaim this story as the real thing’ and ‘we have waited a long time for this war’s All Quiet on the Western Front. Here it is’.