Fiction, War Narratives, British & Commonwealth - Armed Forces, Europe - Armed Forces - Biography, World War I, British & Irish Literary Biography, World Literature, British History - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
Ford Madox Ford's post-war masterpiece, Parade's End, is recognised as one of the great British novels about the First World War. This selection from his other extensive writings about the war, published and unpublished, sheds light on the tetralogy. It includes reminiscences, an unfinished novel, stories and excerpts from letters. Ford was in his forties when he enlisted: this made him one of the few writers of his maturity to fight on the Western Front. His experience of combat was limited, but he was in the Battle of the Somme, was often under bombardment, and suffered from shell-shock. His largely psychological response to the war anticipates the recent renewal of interest in trauma and shell-shock (as, for example, in Pat Barker's Ghost Road trilogy). This book provides important testimony by one of the best writers of his generation.Editorials
From the Publisher
"War Prose is largely about shock, and contrast: about fear and the contradictory, near-insane lack of fear, because of distraction, busyness; the contrast, also, of a soldier's life (and death) and the lives of upper-class civilians."
-Times Literary Supplement,
"Saunders has pulled together a rich variety of reflections on conflict and its aftermath."
-London Review of Books,
Book Details
Published
November 1, 2012
Publisher
Carcanet Press, Limited
Pages
292
ISBN
9781847778772