bOne of the great World War I antiwar novels--honest, chilling, and brilliantly satiricalbr b brBased on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, iDeath of a Heroi, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the British Expeditionary Army during the Great War and gets sent to France. After a rash of casualties leads to his promotion through the ranks, he grows increasingly cynical about the war and disillusioned by the hypocrisies of British society. Aldington's writing about Britain's ignorance of the tribulations of its soldiers is among the most biting ever published. iDeath of a Heroi vividly evokes the morally degrading nature of combat as it rushes toward its astounding finish. pFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works th