Book description
Set in the First World War, Journey's End concerns a group of British
officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in
France. Raleigh, a new eighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English
public school, joins the besieged company of his friend and cricketing
hero Stanhope, and finds him dramatically changed ...
Laurence Olivier starred as Stanhope in the first performance of
Journey's End in 1928; the play was an instant stage success and
remains a remarkable anti-war classic.
