In the latest of our Edinburgh book festival podcasts, we speak about "conflict and the conflicted" with two novelists whose latest works are both set in and around the second world war.
Gerard Woodward's Vanishing follows a hapless art student into the African desert, where he becomes a "camoufleur" – disguising tanks and railway lines from enemy bombers. Adam Foulds's In the Wolf's Mouth follows the Allied forces into Sicily. Masculinity and the morality of war are among the common themes of two very different novels.
Reading list
In the Wolf's Mouth by Adam Foulds (Jonathan Cape)
Vanishing by Gerard Woodward (Picador)
