Old SoldiersReissue to follow up publication of Paul Baileys new novel Kitty and Virgil. Two of his previous novels Peter Smarts Confessions and Gabriels Lament, were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. First published in 1980, Old Soldiers is Baileys most elegantly simple and perhaps most moving novel. The eponymous soldiers are two old men who (as his own father had been) are still haunted by First World War memories. Victor Harker a survivor from the Somme,