Birdsong was written in 1993 by Sebastian Faulks, a British author. This is an epic tale about love and war with the war being World War I. In 1910 a young British businessman named Stephan is sent to France to learn about a clothing manufacturing plant. He stays with the plant owner and his family is a small French village. He falls in love with the plant owner's wife and they run away together. After living together for 3 months, she runs away. He stays on in France in case she wants to return to him but he is lost without her. When Germany invades he volunteers to help the French army. The chapters about what happened in World War I were brutal and difficult to read. Stephan saw things that changed him forever. In the first two years of the war, only a handful remained alive under his command of 60 men. This was a great story and it reminded me of the movie The English Patient.
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