The Hardest Part

<p>Stark moving but with glimmers of humour amongst the wreckage <em>The Hardest Part</em> asks perhaps the hardest question of all when faced with the horrors of the 1st World War - where was God to be found in the carnage of the western front? <br /><br />Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy's answer that through the cross God shares in human suffering rather than being a ‘passionate potentate’ looking down unmoved by death injury and destruction on an immense scale was and still is revolutionary.<br /><br />Marking the centenary both of the end of the First World War and the original publication of The Hardest Part this new critical edition contains a contextual introduction a brief biography of Studdert Kennedy annotated bibliography and the full text of the first edition of the book with explanatory notes.</p>