Grapes of Wrath

"Grapes of Wrath" is a fictional account of the Somme battle, colored by the fact that the greater part of it was written in the Somme area or between the Cable's visits to it. This a story of three friends going together through the misery and horrors of war, inspired by the author's ambition of describing the clash from the point of view of an ordinary infantry private and showing how much he sees or knows and suffers in a great battle like that.

Auteur
Boyd Cable (real name Ernest Andrew Ewart, 1878-1943) was an English author born in India. At the outbreak of World War I, he offered his services and was accepted in 1914, being one of the first men not in the regular army to get a commission and be sent to the front. Previously unheard of as an author, he soon became the greatest "literary discovery" of the War due to his works "Between the Lines", "Action Front", "Doing Their Bit" and "Grapes of Wrath". He published more than 80 titles, mostly novels and short stories.