War Novels: Birdsong

"Birdsong" by Sebastian Faulks was first published in 1993. This war novel tells a family saga, mainly following two main characters, Stephen Wraysford and Elizabeth Benson.

Stephen Wraysford is a British soldier on the front line in Amiens, and Elizabeth Benson is his granddaughter. The novel describes how she attempts to recover the history of her grandfather's involvement in the war during the 1970s.