WWI and a love affair that haunts three generations. Stephen Wraysford and Isabelle Azaire's pre-war passion, and what the war makes of the man who loved her. Faulks is unsparing about what violence does to the capacity for love, which makes the love all the more necessary. The tunneling sequences are among the most devastating in modern war fiction.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.