| Description |
xvii, 192 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1 Robert Graves and Goodbye to All That 1 -- 2 Rebutting disenchantment: Charles Carrington and A Subaltern's War 13 -- 3 Survivors of a kind: Guy Chapman and Edmund Blunden 27 -- 4 Fire-eaters: Alfred Pollard, VC and John Reith 45 -- 5 Grandeur and misery: the Guards 59 -- 6 Voices from the ranks: Frederic Manning and Frank Richards 75 -- 7 Protesters against the war: the contrasting cases of Siegfried Sassoon -- and Max Plowman 93 -- 8 Martinet, militarist and opponent of war: the strange career of -- Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier 113 -- 9 The war in the air: Cecil Lewis and Billy Bishop 131 -- 10 Having a'good war': Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan 147 |
| Summary |
History |
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This is a unique study of World War One memoirs from a historical perspective. It explores the tremendous effect that war experience had on writers' lives and how they came to terms with it after 1918, in deeply moving and often brilliant writing., it challenges the view that memoir writers were in any clear sense ànti-war'. While many were appalled by heavy losses and awful conditions they were, however, determined to achieve victory and proud of their regimental service and comrades. Above all, they constitute a brilliant source for understanding the war on the Western Front |
| Analysis |
Biography |
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Historiography |
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Overseas item |
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World War 1 |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-186) and index |
| Subject |
Biography as a literary form.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Historiography.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Western Front -- Biography
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2009275403 |
| ISBN |
1847250041 (hbk.) |
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9781847250049 (hbk.) |
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