The Somme Including Also The Coward
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The Somme Including Also The Coward
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Author : Arthur Donald Gristwood
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2006
The Somme Including Also The Coward written by Arthur Donald Gristwood and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
In these stories, the heroics of war and noble self-sacrifice are completely absent; replaced by the gritty realism of life in WWI for the ordinary soldier, and the unflinching portrayal of the horrors of war. Written under the guidance of the master storyteller H. G. Wells, they are classics of the genre. 'The Somme' revolves around a futile attack in 1916 during the Somme campaign. Everitt, who is wounded and moved back through a series of dressing stations to the General Hospital at Rouen. Both in and out of the line he behaves selfishly and unheroically, but in a manner with which it is hard for the reader not to identify. Based on A D Gristwood's own wartime experiences, critics have said that few other accounts of the war give such an accurate picture of trench life. 'The Coward' concerns a man who shoots himself in the hand to escape the war, during the March 1918 retreat - an offense punishable by death.
The Somme
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Author : A. D. Gristwood
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2016-08-02
The Somme written by A. D. Gristwood and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-02 with Fiction categories.
Two World War I classics: The story of a British soldier enduring the battle in France and a novella starring a man who takes drastic steps to escape the Great War. The million British dead have left no books behind. What they felt as they died hour by hour in the mud, or were choked horribly with gas, or relinquished their reluctant lives on stretchers, no witness tells. But here is a book that almost tells it. . . . Mr. Gristwood has had the relentless simplicity to recall things as they were; he was as nearly dead as he could be without dying, and he has smelt the stench of his own corruption. This is the story of millions of men—of millions.” —H. G. Wells In The Somme and its companion The Coward, first published in 1927, the heroics of war and noble self-sacrifice are completely absent, replaced by the gritty realism of life for the ordinary soldier in World War I and an unflinching portrayal of the horrors of war. Written under the guidance of master storyteller H. G. Wells, they are classics of the genre. Based on A. D. Gristwood’s own wartime experiences, The Somme revolves around a futile attack during the 1916 Somme campaign. On the battlefront, Tom Everitt is wounded and must be moved back through a series of dressing stations to the General Hospital at Rouen. Few other accounts of the war give such an accurate picture of trench life, and The Spectator praised Gristwood’s “very effective writing,” calling The Somme “a book which anyone who was not in the War should read.” The Coward concerns a man who shoots himself in the hand to escape the chaos during the March 1918 retreat—an offense punishable by death—and is haunted by fear of discovery and self-loathing. Together, these works offer a vivid, immersive view of the First World War and the suffering it inflicted on the men who fought it.
The Somme Including Also The Coward With A Pref By H G Wells
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Author : Arthur Donald Gristwood
language : en
Publisher: London, J. Cape [1928]
Release Date : 1928
The Somme Including Also The Coward With A Pref By H G Wells written by Arthur Donald Gristwood and has been published by London, J. Cape [1928] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 Fiction categories.
Modern Literature And The Death Penalty 1890 1950
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Author : Katherine Ebury
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-02-10
Modern Literature And The Death Penalty 1890 1950 written by Katherine Ebury and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines how the cultural and ethical power of literature allowed writers and readers to reflect on the practice of capital punishment in the UK, Ireland and the US between 1890 and 1950. It explores how connections between ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture seem particularly inextricable where the death penalty is at stake, analysing a range of forms including major works of canonical literature, detective fiction, plays, polemics, criminological and psychoanalytic tracts and letters and memoirs. The book addresses conceptual understandings of the modern death penalty, including themes such as confession, the gothic, life-writing and the human-animal binary. It also discusses the role of conflict in shaping the representation of capital punishment, including chapters on the Easter Rising, on World War I, on colonial and quasi-colonial conflict and on World War II. Ebury’s overall approach aims to improve our understanding of the centrality of the death penalty and the role it played in major twentieth century literary movements and historical events.
The Fierce Light
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Author : Anne Powell
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2006-11-15
The Fierce Light written by Anne Powell and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-15 with History categories.
Contains a selection of prose and poetry from 38 contemporary British, Australian and New Zealand writers who fought during the Battle of the Somme. This work tells the stories of different men from different backgrounds.
Verdun And The Somme
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Author : Harro Grabolle
language : en
Publisher: Akademiai Kiado
Release Date : 2004
Verdun And The Somme written by Harro Grabolle and has been published by Akademiai Kiado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Analysis of British and German prose fiction written between 1916 and 1937, with different ideological points of view. Authors represented include, from Germany, Fritz von Unruh, Josef M. Wehner, Werner Beumelburg, Arnold Zweig, and from Britain, Alec J. Dawson, Alan P. Herbert, Arthur D. Gristwood, Frederic Manning and David Jones.
Military Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Military Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Military art and science categories.
Review Of Current Military Literature
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
Review Of Current Military Literature written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with Military art and science categories.
Quarterly Review Of Military Literature
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
Quarterly Review Of Military Literature written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with Military art and science categories.
Literature And The Great War 1914 1918
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Author : Randall Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Literature And The Great War 1914 1918 written by Randall Stevenson and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production, and reception history, and frequently testing and exploring the boundaries of the notion of text itself, the volumes in the series question familiar frameworks and provide innovative interpretations of both canonical and less well-known works. The Great War shaped the modern world, and much of its literary imagination. Literature and the Great War insightfully reassesses this impact, analysing a wide range of authors, both established and less well-known, and re-examining critical judgements, popular assumptions - even 'myths' - about war writing that have developed in the century or so that has followed. By looking at all genres of Great War writing in a single volume, the study allows reconsideration of the relative merits of the period's much-praised poetry and its generally less celebrated narrative texts. Randall Stevenson looks far beyond the work of soldier-authors, considering also the role of an older generation of writers - ones whose reputations were established before the war began - as well as the impact of war on the modernist imagination developing afterwards, in the 1920s. Literature and the Great War examines the context in which this literature was produced. Taking into consideration military life, the role of newspapers, war correspondents, politicians and propagandists. The unintelligible violence of the Great War placed a huge amount of pressure on the language, imagination, and textual practice of all who attempted to describe it. Incisively reconsidering these fundamental issues, Literature and the Great War challenges and rejuvenates approaches to its subject, redefining the interconnections of history, culture, and literary imagination in the early decades of the twentieth century.