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The numbers tell only half the story - nearly a million Britons killed in four years of war on the Western Front. The other half of the story - what the First World War did to those it didn't kill - had to wait until the survivors found their voices and began to write the novels and stories that are all we can know of what they endured. The Flower of Battle is Hugh Cecil's masterfully researched resurrection of the lives and work of twelve British novelists who came out of the war - writers like Richard Aldington, author of Death of a Hero, which stunned English readers with its bitter vision of the futile slaughter of the trenches, or R. H. Mottram, who told the whole story of the war obliquely through the lives of a single French family in The Spanish Farm trilogy. Some of these authors and their books won huge commerical success; others dropped stillborn from the press. But all brought the war to life, and brought a deeper understanding to the first of the great tragedies of the 20th century.

English fiction --- World War, 1914-1918 --- War stories, English

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War stories, English. --- World War, 1914-1918 --- France

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English literature --- War stories, English --- World War, 1914-1918 --- History and criticism --- Literature and the war --- Sherriff, R. C. --- 20th century --- War stories [English ]

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Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 --- Adventure stories, English. --- War stories, English. --- France --- History, Military --- Fiction.

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This work offers a portrait of the relationship between British First World War culture and modernist writings. It shows that modernist writers and combatants shared a concern with the divide between language and experience. The analysis extends to memorials, posters and architecture.

English literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- War poetry, English --- War stories, English --- World War, 1914-1918 --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism --- Literature and the war --- 20th century --- Great Britain --- War stories [English ] --- War poetry [English ]