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Thursday 23 October 2014

Darkly into Oblivion; Talk by Robin Whitehead, Friday 17 October

Unfortunately I, along with the Chair of the Literary Society and our daughter, missed this meeting. I've had glowing reports of Robin's talk, and hope he or one of our members could provide a short summary to post here for the benefit of those who, like us, could not be at the meeting. To give an idea of the ground covered, here is a bibliography of the books mentioned.

History/Factual

The Living Shadow - The Great War and the 20th Century    David Reynolds
The Great War and Modern Memory    Paul Fussell
Faith under Fire: Army Chaplains and the Great War    Edward Madigan
Wounded    Emily Mayhew

Some Contemporary Novels

Birdsong    Sebastian Faulks
The Regeneration Trilogy    Pat Barker
Toby's Room    Pat Barker
Strange Meeting    Susan Hill
My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You    Louisa Young
The Absolutist    John Boyne
The Return of Captain Emmett    Elizabeth Speller
At Break of Day    Elizabeth Speller
The Lie    Helen Dunmore
Daughters of Mars    Thomas Kennealy
The Reavley Series WW I Quintet    Anne Perry

Novels written during and shortly after the War

 Under Fire    Henri Barbusse
All Quiet on the Western Front    Erich Maria Remarque
Storm of Steel    Ernst Junger
One of Ours    Willa Cather
A Son at the Front    Edith Wharton
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse    Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Retreat: A Story of 1918    Charles Richard Benstead
Death of a Hero    Richard Aldington
A Farewell to Arms    Ernest Hemingway
Non-Combatants and Others    Rose Macauley
Return of the Soldier    Rebecca West
The Secret Battle    AP Herbert
The Middle Parts of Fortune    Frederic Manning
Parade's End    Ford Madox Ford
No Hero This    Warwick Deeping
The Spanish FarmTrilogy    R H Mottram
The 39 Steps/ Greenmantle/ Mr Standfast/ The Three Hostages  John Buchan
Bulldog Drummond Stories   "Sapper" (H C McNeile)
Private Spud Tamson    R W Campbell
The Biggles Stories    Captain W E Johns
Sherlock Holmes Stories (His Last Bow)    Arthur Conan Doyle

Memoirs

Testament of Youth    Vera Brittain
Goodbye to All That    Robert Graves
A Passionate Prodigality    Guy Chapman
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston    Siegfried Sassoon
Undertones of War    Edmund Blunden
Wet Flanders Plain    Henry Williamson

Short Stories

The Penguin Book of First World War Stories




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