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An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the many modes in which short fiction contributed to the war's literature. The selection covers different periods: the war years themselves, the famous boom years of the late 1920s to the more recent past in which the First World War has received new cultural interest.
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Barbara Korte has published on the literature of World War I and the British short story. A project commencing in January 2006 is devoted to the impact of the short story on the British perception of the Great War.
Ann-Marie Einhaus is working on a PhD thesis on the British short story of World War I in the light of British cultural memory, and has previously treated the First World War for her MA thesis on women's Great War poetry.
Barbara Korte has published on the literature of World War One and the British short story. A project commencing in January 2006 is devoted to the impact of the short story on the British perception of the Great War.
Ann-Marie Einhaus is working on a PhD thesis on the British short story of World War One in the light of British cultural memory, and has previously treated the First World War for her MA thesis on women's Great War poetry.
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It was during the retreat of the eighty thousand,1 and the authority of the censorship is sufficient excuse for not being more explicit. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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It was during the retreat of the eighty thousand,1 and the authority of the censorship is sufficient excuse for not being more explicit. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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Good starting point for the literature of the war.
9 Nov 2011
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As a historian who is becoming increasingly interested in the literature of the First World War I looked forward to reading this collection, and was not disappointed. Like all such anthologies it aims to be broadly representative of the field, rather than exhaustive and masterly of any one. The result is a collection that covers a lot of ground, both in terms of areas covered and time periods represented, and thus is something of a 'jack of all trades but master of none'. This really would be my only criticism of it, that it could have been a much longer, and thus more complete, work.
The anthology is broken down into four sections:
1) Front
2) Spies and Intelligence
3) At Home
4) In Retrospect
and they cover the assorted experiences of soldiers and sailors on the front lines; those of the spies and secret agents behind the scenes; those of the ordinary civilians and relatives of soldiers back home; and those of survivors and relatives of survivors in the years after the war and looking back.
The range of authors is good, with numerous big literary names featured, including D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, W. Somerset Maugham, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Graves, amongst others. The only one I had encountered before was Doyle's story bringing Sherlock Holmes out of retirement for one last service to his country. I enjoyed many of them, found the rest interesting, and only found one - Radclyffe Hall's 'Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself' a somewhat strange pick and a little out of place.
Add in a good introductory overview of WWI literature (which I actually wish was rather longer than its 9 pages), with suggestions for further readings, and a glossary of WWI terms, plus maps and notes, and this is an excellent introduction to the topic.
The anthology is broken down into four sections:
1) Front
2) Spies and Intelligence
3) At Home
4) In Retrospect
and they cover the assorted experiences of soldiers and sailors on the front lines; those of the spies and secret agents behind the scenes; those of the ordinary civilians and relatives of soldiers back home; and those of survivors and relatives of survivors in the years after the war and looking back.
The range of authors is good, with numerous big literary names featured, including D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, W. Somerset Maugham, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Graves, amongst others. The only one I had encountered before was Doyle's story bringing Sherlock Holmes out of retirement for one last service to his country. I enjoyed many of them, found the rest interesting, and only found one - Radclyffe Hall's 'Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself' a somewhat strange pick and a little out of place.
Add in a good introductory overview of WWI literature (which I actually wish was rather longer than its 9 pages), with suggestions for further readings, and a glossary of WWI terms, plus maps and notes, and this is an excellent introduction to the topic.
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