The Great War Reader

by Hannah, James

• ISBN13: 9780890969441
• ISBN10: 0890969442
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

In this collection of World War I literature, memoirists, short story writers, novelists, poets, playwrights, and historians write of a time that witnessed the death of the pastoral tones of the 19th century and the birth of the modern world. 6 photos.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xiii
Foreword	xv
Frank E. Vandiver
Preface	xvii
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Chronology	xxix
Part One: History
Introduction	5	(4)
Winter in the Trenches	9	(7)
Alan Clark
The Missing of the Somme	16	(6)
Geoff Dyer
The Romance Quest	22	(9)
Paul Fussell
Fort Vaux	31	(13)
Alistair Horne
Assault on High Wood	44	(14)
Lyn Macdonald
The Evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula	58	(13)
Alan Moorehead
A Funeral	71	(13)
Barbara Tuchman
The Strain of Trench Warfare	84	(13)
Denis Winter
Part Two: Letters and Diaries
Introduction	97	(110)
Letters
Selection from:
A Place Called Armageddon	101	(10)
Despatches from the Heart	111	(3)
German Students' War Letters	114	(26)
Diaries
A Quiet Front	140	(11)
Horace Bruckshaw
Kaba Tepe and Anzac	151	(14)
Aubrey Herbert
1918: The Assault on the Chemin des Dames	165	(8)
Herbert Sulzbach
Assault on `Springfield'	173	(12)
Edwin Campion Vaughan
The Diary of a Dead Officer	185	(22)
Arthur Graeme West
Part Three: Memoirs
Introduction	207	(4)
Memoirs of War, 1914--1915	211	(14)
Marc Bloch
Undertones of War	225	(14)
Edmund Blunden
Testament of Youth	239	(19)
Vera Brittain
A Passionate Prodigality	258	(11)
Guy Chapman
Good-bye to All That	269	(18)
Robert Graves
The Storm of Steel	287	(12)
Ernst Junger
Sagittarius Rising	299	(5)
Cecil Lewis
A Subaltern on the Somme	304	(13)
Max Plowman
The Memoirs of George Sherston	317	(10)
Siegfried Sassoon
Six Weeks at the War	327	(16)
Millicent Sutherland
Marching on Tanga	343	(14)
Francis Brett Young
Part Four: Poetry
Introduction	357	(40)
Rupert Brooke
The Soldier	359	(1)
May Wedderburn Cannan
Rouen	359	(2)
Margaret Postgate Cole
The Falling Leaves	361	(1)
Eleanor Farjeon
Easter Monday	362	(1)
Ivor Gurney
De Profundis	362	(1)
Ypres---Minsterworth	363	(1)
First Time In	364	(1)
Memory, Let All Slip	364	(1)
Laventie	365	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Channel Firing	366	(1)
Rudyard Kipling
Gethsemane	367	(1)
John McCrae
In Flanders Fields	368	(1)
Charlotte Mew
The Cenotaph	368	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Dulce Et Decorum Est	369	(1)
Anthem for Doomed Youth	370	(1)
Greater Love	371	(1)
Mental Cases	371	(1)
Spring Offensive	372	(1)
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young	373	(1)
Isaac Rosenberg
From France	374	(1)
Break of Day in the Trenches	374	(1)
Louse Hunting	375	(1)
Returning, We Hear the Larks	376	(1)
Dead Man's Dump	376	(3)
Siegfried Sassoon
Wirers	379	(1)
How to Die	379	(1)
Lamentations	380	(1)
Suicide in the Trenches	380	(1)
The Road	380	(1)
The Hero	381	(1)
Counter-Attack	381	(1)
Alan Seeger
I Have a Rendezvous with Death	382	(1)
Edith Sitwell
The Dancers	383	(1)
Charles Hamilton Sorley
Two Sonnets	384	(1)
All the Hills and Vales Along	385	(1)
When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead	386	(1)
August Stramm
Stormtaking	386	(1)
Battlefield	387	(1)
Wounds	387	(1)
In the Firing	387	(1)
Grenades	388	(1)
War Grave	388	(1)
Georg Trakl
Lament	388	(1)
In the East	389	(1)
Grodek: Second Version	389	(1)
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Watch	390	(1)
Brothers	390	(1)
The Rivers	391	(2)
Pilgrimage	393	(4)
Part Five: Fiction
Introduction	397	(4)
The Death of a Hero	401	(11)
Richard Aldington
Under Fire	412	(10)
Henri Barbusse
Wooden Crosses	422	(6)
Roland Dorgeles
Civilization, 1914--1917	428	(6)
Georges Duhamel
The Wars	434	(8)
Timothy Findley
The Middle Parts of Fortune	442	(10)
Frederic Manning
The Spanish Farm	452	(8)
R. H. Mottram
The Raid	460	(7)
Herbert Read
All Quiet on the Western Front	467	(6)
Erich Maria Remarque
Appendix A The Repression of War Experience	473	(16)
W. H. R. Rivers
Appendix B Biographies	489	(8)
Appendix C Further Suggested Works	497	(4)
Bibliography	501