The acclaimed debut novel from English writer and artist Harry Parker, a former Captain in the British Army who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.


"Anatomy of a Soldier" published by Faber & Faber, London in February 2016, 1st edition, standard modern hardback, 314 pages.




This is the special limited edition of the book.  Flat signed by the author at title, an embossed stamp showing this copy as number 456 from the limited worldwide release of only 500 copies. 

In New unread condition in a decorated slipcase, small storage crinkle to front lower right corner of dustjacket.









" A stunning debut -- of patriotism, heroism, and profound humanism -- that will immediately take its place on the short shelf of classics about men at war and what all that truly means.




Captain Tom Barnes is leading British troops in a war zone. Two boys are growing up there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites, before finding themselves separated once the soldiers appear in their countryside.  On all sides of this conflict, people are about to be caught up in the violence, from the man who trains one boy to fight the infidel invaders to Barnes's family waiting for him to return home.

We see them not as they see themselves, but as all the objects surrounding them do: shoes and boots, a helmet, a trove of dollars, a drone, that bike, weaponry, a bag of fertilizer, a medal, a beer glass, a snowflake, dog tags, an exploding IED and the medical implements that are subsequently employed.




Anatomy of a Soldier is a moving, enlightening and fiercely dramatic novel about one man's journey of survival and the experiences of those around him.  Forty-five objects, one unforgettable story.




It's marvellously told and this way of telling it ... giving the inanimate a voice ... is both engrossing and distancing and I know of nothing quite like it.   (Alan Bennett)


It is a novel of concentrated ferocity and chilling accomplishments, tense and unflinching but alive to every nuance of feeling.   (Hilary Mantel)


This is a brilliant book, direct from the battle zone, where all the paraphernalia of slaughter is deployed to tell its particular and savage story.    (Edna O'Brien) "















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