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vjanssen (vjanssen) wrote,
@ 2008-02-07 15:54:00

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some subjective reference material
British wartime novels

H. G. Wells, MR. BRITLING SEES IT THROUGH, 1916
May Sinclair, THE TREE OF HEAVEN, 1917
Mary Hamilton, DEAD YESTERDAY, 1916
Rose Mcaulay, NON-COMBATANTS AND OTHERS, 1916

British postwar novels and memoirs

Ford Madox Ford, LAST POST, 1928
Siegfried Sassoon, MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN, 1928
Richard Aldington, DEATH OF A HERO, 1929
Robert Graves, GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT, 1929
Mary Borden, THE FORBIDDEN ZONE, 1929
Henry Williamson, THE WET FLANDERS PLAIN, 1929
Edmund Blunden, UNDERTONES OF WAR, 1930
Frederic Manning, HER PRIVATES, WE, 1930 [I'm sorry, but that title cracks me up!]
Vera Brittain, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, 1933

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	oursin 2008-02-08 04:17 pm UTC (link)
	One of Brittain's novels - I think it's Honourable Estate -includes fictionalisation of her war experience as VAD and character in question having brief fling (including contraception - as I recall quinine pessaries) with American. Of possible interest? (Is rather long generational saga about marriage and changes in same.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	vjanssen 2008-02-09 03:52 am UTC (link)
	Ooh, yes. I must add that to my list. Of the above, I've only obtained & read the Blunden and the Brittain memoirs. Sassoon's trilogy is on the shelf, and I think the Graves is the next one I want. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	oursin 2008-02-10 01:03 am UTC (link)
	And under wartime novels, have just remembered: Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, though most of it takes place away from the front. There is probably more Sinclair - certainly one about ambulance drivers, as well as her memoir about the Ambulance Corps. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vjanssen 2008-02-12 12:23 am UTC (link)
	I think I downloaded THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER at one time, very early in my research. It has the amnesiac, correct? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	oursin 2008-02-12 01:54 am UTC (link)
	That's right - traumatic amnesia. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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