The Flower of Battle: English Fiction of the First World War

by HughCecil (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $5.00

  World War I inspired hundreds of novels by British men and women who survived it. Most, even the best-sellers, are now forgotten. This book unearths the lives and works of a dozen of these writers, describing the events in the war which scarred their lives and inspired their books. Some, like Richard Aldington, author of Death of a Hero , achieved a lasting reputation, others, like Ronald Gurner, who wrote Pass Guard at Ypres , killed themselves. Over them all, the Flower of Battle , one writer's symbol for the experience of war, cast its shadow for the rest of their lives.