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Author McPhail, Helen

Title On the trail of the Poets of the Great War : Robert Graves & Siegfried Sassoon / helen McPhail and Philip Guest
Published Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Leo Cooper, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series On the trail of the poets of the Great War
Battleground Europe. On the trail of the poets of the Great War.
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 The Royal Welch Fusiliers -- Chapter 2 Two New Officers -- Chapter 3 Life with the RWF -- Chapter 4 The Battle of the Somme -- Chapter 5 The Somme Continues -- Chapter 6 1917 -- Chapter 7 A Meeting of Minds -- Chapter 8 Back to the Western Front -- Chapter 9 Armistice and Aftermath -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary The war memoirs of these two officers with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers have never been out of print since their first publication. Both men won instant and enduring fame with these very different narratives, which made them two of the most influential participants in shaping later attitudes to the war. Graves gave offence in many quarters with his factual inaccuracies and/or slurs on various units of the British Army. Sassoon's nostalgic evocation of his cricketing and fox-hunting background contrast with the detailed narrative of personalities and life in the Battle of the Somme and the Battle
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-189) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985.
SUBJECT Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 fast
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967 fast
Graves, Robert (Schriftsteller) swd
Sassoon, Siegfried. swd
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography
Soldiers -- Poetry
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Poets, English
Soldiers
War and literature
Weltkrieg 1914-1918
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
Poetry
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographie 1914-1918.
Form Electronic book
Author Guest, Philip
LC no. 2002391694
ISBN 9781473814714
1473814715
1306863562
9781306863568
9781783835393
1783835397