War Prose

By: Ford Madox Ford

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Paperback | 28 October 1999

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Ford Madox Ford's post-war masterpiece, Parade's End, is recognised as one of the great British novels about the First World War. This selection from his other extensive writings about the war, published and unpublished, sheds light on the tetralogy. It includes reminiscences, an unfinished novel, stories and excerpts from letters. Ford was in his forties when he enlisted: this made him one of the few writers of his maturity to fight on the Western Front. His experience of combat was limited, but he was in the Battle of the Somme, was often under bombardment, and suffered from shell-shock. His largely psychological response to the war anticipates the recent renewal of interest in trauma and shell-shock (as, for example, in Pat Barker's Ghost Road trilogy). This book provides important testimony by one of the best writers of his generation.

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Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) was a man of prolific ability: editor, critic and novelist, he was also one of the oldest men to participate in frontline action during the First World War. Although his experience of combat was limited, he wrote a wealth of pieces connected with his time on the Western Front and this eclectic volume, containing both published and unpublished work, gives ample demonstration of how profoundly the war affected his subsequent life. Herein lies the book's appeal. Discursive and of uneven literary merit, the volume's chief recommendation lies in its expansive sweep. (Kirkus UK)

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Introduction	p. 1
Reminiscences
An Englishman Looks at the World	p. 25
'Pon... ti... pri... ith'	p. 30
Arms and the Mind/War and the Mind: A Day of Battle	p. 36
Arms and the Mind	p. 36
War and the Mind	p. 42
The Enemy	p. 42
Trois Jours de Permission	p. 49
Epilogue	p. 52
From I Revisit the Riviera	p. 64
Preparedness	p. 69
Fiction
True Love and a GCM	p. 77
Six Short Stories: The Scaremonger	p. 142
'Fun! - It's Heaven'	p. 149
Pink Flannel	p. 154
The Colonel's Shoes	p. 159
Enigma	p. 170
The Miracle	p. 177
Prefaces
Preface to Their Lives	p. 189
The Trail of the Barbarians	p. 191
From 'A Note by way of Preface' to All Else is Folly	p. 193
The Three Dedicatory Letters to Parade's End	p. 196
Miscellany
Early Responses to the War	p. 207
Joining Up	p. 215
Shell Shock	p. 222
Western Front	p. 224
Reading Behind the Lines	p. 230
Illness and Regeneration	p. 238
Wartime England	p. 246
Lecturing to the Army	p. 250
Immediate Effects on the Mind and on Literature	p. 258
After-Effects on the Mind, Literature and Society	p. 262
Memorialising the War	p. 275
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