SOURCE: A review of Company K, in The Times Literary Supplement, Vol. 32, No. 1632, May 11, 1933, p. 332.

In the following excerpt, a reviewer praises the effectiveness of the narrative strategy March employs in Company K.

The idea behind Mr. William March's story is a clever one for a War novel. It is, in fact, so obviously effective that it is curious that it has not been thought of before. It is to take the imaginary roster of a company of infantry and give a short extract, in the first person, from the views of every officer and man either on the War in general or on some particular incident. The company being an American one, the synthesis is not so representative as is claimed, since the Americans took part only in the last year of the War, but it could have been made more representative than it is. There are...