A patriot's progress : Henry Williamson and the First World War

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A patriot's progress : Henry Williamson and the First World War

Anne Williamson

Sutton Pub., 1998

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Henry Williamson and the First World War

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-196) and index

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Description

Henry Williamson is perhaps best known for his Hawthornden Prize-winning "Tarka the Otter", yet he devoted a major part of his life to fiction which drew closely on his experiences during World War I, including his sequence of novels "A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight". His time in the trenches affected him profoundly and, like many young soldiers, he was changed utterly by what he saw. This book draws closely on his letters, diaries, photographs and notebooks written at the time to give an account of life in the trenches of World War I. It also affords an insight into the making of a novelist.

Table of Contents

  • A dreaming youth
  • Private 9689 and the London Rifle Brigade
  • in the trenches - Christmas 1916
  • promotion
  • transport officer at the front
  • with the Bedfordshires
  • beyond reality - Henry Williamson's fictional writings on the First World War.

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