THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2016 by Harry Parker

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Faber & Faber, Limited, London, in 2016.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Parker, Harry, [date] author.

Title: Anatomy of a soldier / Harry Parker.

Description: First United States edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015042247 (print) | LCCN 2015049575 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101946633 (hardback) | ISBN 9781101946640 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Soldiers—Great Britain—Fiction. | Domestic fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / War & Military. | FICTION / Family Life. | FICTION / Literary. | GSAFD: War stories.

Classification: LCC PR6116.A7425 A53 2016 (print) | LCC PR6116.A7425 (ebook) | DDC 823/.92—dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/​2015042247

eBook ISBN 9781101946640

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover image: 3D rendering by Magnus Atom

Cover design by Oliver Munday

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