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Press, 1995), pp. 293 7.
42 Wilson, The Myriad Faces of War, pp. 848 51.
43 French, The Strategy of the Lloyd George Coalition pp. 296 7.
44 Bourne, Britain and the Great War, pp. 205 6, 230 1.
45 Jay Winter, The Great War and the British People (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 71 99.
46 See, for example, Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning:
The Great War in European Cultural History (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995), and Adrian Gregory, The
Silence of Memory: Armistice Day 1919 1946 (Oxford: Berg,
1994).
47 Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of
the Modern Age (London: Bantam, 1989), pp. 255 6.
48 Thirty-eight Thankful Villages are believed to have had no
fatalities, and one Somerset village, Stocklinch, had none in the
Second World War either. See correspondence in The Times,
15 and 20 November 1997. See also Ian F. W. Beckett The Great
War 1914 1918 (London: Longman, 2001), p. 439.
49 Eksteins, Rites of Spring, p. 297.
2 goodbye to all that, 1919--1933
1 Correlli Barnett, A military historian s view of the Literature of
the Great War , Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature,
36 (1970), 1 18. See also Barnett s The Collapse of British Power
(London: Eyre Methuen, 1972) pp. 424 35.
2 Martin Stephen, The Price of Pity (London: Leo Cooper, 1996),
pp. 138 47.
3 Rosa Maria Bracco, Merchants of Hope. British Middlebrow Writers
and the First World War, 1919 1939 (Oxford: Berg, 1993).
4 Hugh Cecil, British War Novelists , in Cecil and Liddle, Facing
Armageddon, p. 803.
5 Brian Bond, Anti-War Writers and their Critics , ibid., pp. 820 1.
See also Keith Grieves, C. E. Montague and the Making of
Disenchantment, 1914 1921 , War in History, 4, 1 (1997), 35 9;
and Grieves, C. E. Montague, Manchester and the Remembrance
notes to pages 29--35 113
of War, 1918 1925 , Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library
of Manchester, 77, 2 (Summer 1995), 85 104.
6 Robert Wohl, The Generation of 1914 (London: Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, 1980), p. 219.
7 Bond, Anti-War Writers , p. 825; Cyril Falls, War Books, a Critical
Guide (London: P. Davies, 1930), p. 292.
8 Hugh Cecil, The Flower of Battle: British Fiction Writers of the
First World War (London: Secker & Warburg, 1995), pp. 18,
24, 35.
9 Falls, War Books, p. 208; Alfred Oliver Pollard, Fire-Eater: the
Memoirs of a V.C. (London: Hutchinson, 1932).
10 Wilson, Siegfried Sassoon, pp. 291, 312, 341, 367; Robert Graves,
But It Still Goes On, an Accumulation (London: Cape, 1930),
p.13.
11 Adrian Caesar, Taking It Like a Man: Suffering, Sexuality and the
War Poets (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990). On
Herbert Read see Cecil, Flower of Battle, pp. 244 66.
12 Guy Chapman, A Kind of Survivor (London: Gollancz, 1975),
pp. 158 9, 280. Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, Another World,
1897 1917 (London: Allen Lane, 1976), p. 150.
13 Charles Edmonds [Charles Carrington], A Subaltern s War
(London: P. Davis, 1929) pp. 194 5, 206 8; Sir David Kelly, The
Ruling Few or the Human Background to Diplomacy (London:
Hollis & Carter, 1952), pp. 86 108. I owe the latter reference to
Professor Paul Smith.
14 Falls, War Books, preface, pp. i, xi.
15 Graves, But It Still Goes On, pp. 16 17, 41 3; Robert Graves,
In Broken Images: Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1914 1946,
ed. Paul O Prey. (London: Hutchinson, 1982), p. 286.
16 Bracco, Merchants of Hope, pp. 149 53, 178, 185 6.
17 Falls, War Books, p. 261, noted that Henri Barbusse s Under Fire,
trans. Fitzwater Wray (London: Dent, 1917) had sold more copies
than any book except Remarque s. He described it as frank
anti-war propaganda and very unreal .
18 Modris Eksteins, All Quiet on the Western Front and the Fate of a
War , Journal of Contemporary History, 15 (1980), 345 66; and
Eksteins, Rites of Spring pp. 276 90. The late Dirk Bogarde chose
All Quiet as his Book of the Century , concluding that no one has
better explained the fate of the ordinary man engaged
incomprehendingly in the viciousness, uselessness and utter waste
of war (Daily Telegraph, 6 March 1999). One wonders, then, why
he volunteered to serve in the (pointless) Second World War.
114 notes to pages 35--43
19 The publisher, Peter Davies, virtually kidnapped the dilatory
author Frederic Manning and held him captive until he had
completed what turned out to be his masterpiece, The Middle Parts
of Fortune. Jonathan Marwil, Frederic Manning, An Unfinished Life
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988), p. 254.
20 Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (London:
Putnam, August 1929, 18th reprint since publication in March),
p. 287.
21 Eksteins, Rites of Spring, pp. 282, 298. In analysing the Failure of
the War Books Herbert Read felt that even Remarque s effort was
flawed: Remarque s depiction of war and suffering had its own
sadistic attractions. See Read, A Coat of Many Colours (1945).
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