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Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916

Rogerson, Sidney
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historical fiction war memoir past tense first POV ~201 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

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bleak gritty melancholic

A slow-burn and dark historical fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Contains notable violence, humor.

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Prose density 85
sparsedense
Pacing 20
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 25
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 75
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 80
intimateepic

Content

Violence 90%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 60%
seriouscomedic
Romance 0%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count50,238
Page count~201 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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