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Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good–bye to All That, 1895–1929
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By Jean Moorcroft Wilson Bloomsbury, £12.95, 460pp, 24 ills, list of abbreviations, notes, index. ISBN: 978–147–292–914–3 Prolific barely indicates the length and breadth of Robert Graves’ writing. The 2003 Penguin edition of his complete poems alone contains 837 pages and includes formerly un–published and posthumously published works. Since…
The Great War: Myth and Memory by Dan Todman
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Hambledon £19.99. The Great War: Myth and Memory is based on Dan Todman’s PhD thesis and looks at the changing perceptions of the Great War from 1918 until the present day. There are seven chapters dealing with: mud, death, donkeys, futility, poets, veterans and modem memory. Chapter three on 'Donkeys' is particularly illuminating. The autho…
John Terraine : The Smoke and the Fire: Myths and Anti–Myths of War 1861–1945
(London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980) A reappraisal by Gary Sheffield [This article first appeared in the April 2021 edition of Stand To! No. 122 pp 51-52. Members received Stand To! four times a year, and Bulletin three times a year either digitally or in print.] Of all John Terraine’s many books, The Smoke and the Fire is my favourite. It is no…
The Evolution of Victory - British Battles on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Andy Simpson
1995 Hardback Publisher T.Donovan 152pp £17.95 ISBN 1 87108519 5 [This review first appeared in the September 1996 edition of Stand To! No. 47] The fighting on the Western Front means different things to different people. For the majority of the population, it is a terrible, apparently senseless event, essentially outside normal history; a ph…