A Vision of Battlements
Burgess, Anthony / Biswell, Andrew A Vision of Battlements has many claims on the attention of readers. The setting is Gibraltar, a place rarely visited by other novelists, the theme is not the frustration of a wartime garrison so much as the pain of looking forward to re-building and re-adjustment at the end of the war. But it is also gloriously comic. The hero is Richard Ennis, sergeant and musician. He is a young man of admirable intentions who never seems to hit it off with...