Killing Ground Louis de Bernieres perhaps it is due to

perhaps it is due to the proliferation of bells in the story

as horse thief

The novel features various generations over the course of 150 years in interconnecting stories

he begins to question what he wants to achieve

his luck having seemingly deserted him

Killing Ground Louis de Bernieres perhaps it is due toThe Western Ocean 1942. From the bridge of HMS Gladiator, Lieutenant Commander David Howard's orders were chillingly clear. There could be no mercy. To the men who fought to protect the vital, threatened Merchat Navy convoys in the Western Approaches, the Battle of the Atlantic was a full scale war. A relentless, savage war against an ever present enemy and a violent sea in an arena known only to its embittered survivors as the killing ground. HMS