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- catalog abstract ""The numbers tell only part of the story - more than half a million Britons killed in four years of war on the Western Front. The rest of the story - what the Great War of 1914-1918 did to those it didn't kill - had to wait until the survivors found their voices and began to write the narratives that are all we can know of what they endured ... The Flower of Battle: How Britain Wrote the Great War tells the lives of a dozen of these writers, many hugely successful in their day but forgotten now. They came from all levels of British society and went off to very different wars - the nightmare of the trenches in France, staff work well behind the lines, ministering to those who had witnessed living hell. Hugh Cecil's brilliantly researched portraits of these eleven men and one woman give us a new understanding of the challenge they all faced - to make sense of a world that seemed to have gone insane ... There is no better one-volume history of Britain's war. But The Flower of Battle is not only a record of suffering, it is also a testament to the power of literature as a redemptive act. In the lives of these dozen writers Cecil has found a common courage, a refusal to succumb to despair, a faith that any horror can be understood, if one can only find the words for it"--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b9941074.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""The numbers tell only part of the story - more than half a million Britons killed in four years of war on the Western Front. The rest of the story - what the Great War of 1914-1918 did to those it didn't kill - had to wait until the survivors found their voices and began to write the narratives that are all we can know of what they endured ... The Flower of Battle: How Britain Wrote the Great War tells the lives of a dozen of these writers, many hugely successful in their day but forgotten now. They came from all levels of British society and went off to very different wars - the nightmare of the trenches in France, staff work well behind the lines, ministering to those who had witnessed living hell. Hugh Cecil's brilliantly researched portraits of these eleven men and one woman give us a new understanding of the challenge they all faced - to make sense of a world that seemed to have gone insane ... There is no better one-volume history of Britain's war. But The Flower of Battle is not only a record of suffering, it is also a testament to the power of literature as a redemptive act. In the lives of these dozen writers Cecil has found a common courage, a refusal to succumb to despair, a faith that any horror can be understood, if one can only find the words for it"--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-426) and index.".
- catalog description "The flower of battle -- A wounded lion: Richard Aldington -- Wingless victor: V.M. Yeates -- The raw nerve: A.D. Gristwood -- Disenchanted observer: R.H. Mottram -- Noblesse oblige: Wilfrid Ewart -- A parson's life laid bare: Robert Keable -- The patriotic identity: Gilbert Frankau -- Answering Remarque: Ronald Gurner -- Damned proud of it we are: Herbert Read -- The bridge builder: Oliver Onions -- The broken bridge: Peter Deane -- The generation of the brokenhearted: Richard Blaker -- Afterword: the personal record.".
- catalog extent "440 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1883642051".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "823/.91209358 20".
- catalog subject "English fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR830.W65 C43 1996".
- catalog subject "War stories, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1914-1918 Great Britain Literature and the war.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The flower of battle -- A wounded lion: Richard Aldington -- Wingless victor: V.M. Yeates -- The raw nerve: A.D. Gristwood -- Disenchanted observer: R.H. Mottram -- Noblesse oblige: Wilfrid Ewart -- A parson's life laid bare: Robert Keable -- The patriotic identity: Gilbert Frankau -- Answering Remarque: Ronald Gurner -- Damned proud of it we are: Herbert Read -- The bridge builder: Oliver Onions -- The broken bridge: Peter Deane -- The generation of the brokenhearted: Richard Blaker -- Afterword: the personal record.".
- catalog title "The flower of battle : how Britain wrote the Great War / Hugh Cecil.".
- catalog type "text".