p. 116 ‘bad St Julien. .’ et al.: Collected Poems, p. 170.
p. 116 ‘Tuesday, 2 October. .’: They Called It Passchendaele, p. 189.
p. 117 ‘the names were. .’: ibid., p. 187.
p. 117 ‘The Oxford Book. .’: Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays, p. 101.
p. 117 ‘want of imagination. .’: The Great War and Modern Memory, p. 12.
p. 117 ‘hopeless absence of. .’ and ‘entirely characteristic of. .’: ibid., p. 13 (my italics).
p. 117 ‘it is refreshing. .’: ibid., p. 109.
p. 117 ‘a sort of. .’: ibid., p. 14.
p. 117 ‘the military equivalent. .’: ibid., p. 12.
p. 117 ‘sophisticated observer. .’: ibid., p. 6.
p. 118 ‘“What ’appened to. .”: The Middle Parts of Fortune, p. 219.
p. 119 ‘It was Christmas. .’: Oh What a Lovely War (Methuen, 1965), p. 50.
p. 119 ‘They’re warning us. .’: ibid., p. 64.
p. 119 ‘those poor wounded. .’ and ‘sounds like a. .’: ibid., pp. 88–9.
p. 119 ‘SECOND SOLDIER: What’s. .’: ibid., p. 46.
p. 120 ‘And when they. .’: ibid., p. 107.
p. 121 ‘it is really. .’: The Great War and Modern Memory, p. 241.
p. 121 ‘the symbolism of. .’: The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, p. 325.
p. 121 ‘Aye, all’s reet. .’: quoted in They Called It Passchendaele, p. 201.
p. 122 ‘The salient was. .’ and ‘just a complete. .’: ibid., p. 186.
p. 122 ‘To our dismay. .’: Wet Flanders Plain, p. 99.
p. 123 ‘the flesh of. .’: Watermark (Hamish Hamilton, 1992), p. 56; see also his poem ‘Nature Morte’, A Part of Speech (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980), p. 45.
p. 125 ‘concentrated essence of. .’: Major-General J. F. C. Fuller, quoted in John Keegan, The Face of Battle, p. 232.
p. 127 ‘a merciless sea. .’, et al.: Short Stories, vol. 2, edited by Andrew Rutherford (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1971), p. 213.
p. 128 ‘Madame, please, / You. .’: Brian Gardner (ed.), Up the Line to Death, p. 157.
p. 129 ‘the booming mecca. .’: They Called It Passchendaele, p. 3.
p. 129 ‘earth gobs and. .’, et al.: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, pp. 125–6.
p. 129 ‘half-ironic phrase. .’: ibid., p. 199.
p. 129 ‘A refuge for. .’: ibid., p. 25.
p. 129 ‘the war is. .’: ibid., p. 30.
p. 129 ‘was like all. .’: ibid., p. 40.
p. 130 ‘I do not. .’: letter to Henry Dan Piper, quoted in Matthew J. Bruccoli, Some Kind of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, revised edn, (Cardinal, 1991), p. xix.
p. 130 ‘After all, life. .’: letter to Mrs Richard Taylor, 10 June 1917, Andrew Turnbull (ed.), The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Penguin, 1968), p. 434.
p. 130 ‘shell-shocks who. .’: Tender is the Night, p. 23.
p. 130 ‘a skull recently. .’: ibid., p. 50.
p. 130 ‘Suddenly there was. .’: ibid., p. 61.
p. 131 ‘Dick turned the. .’ and ‘See that little. .’: ibid., pp. 124–5.
p. 134n For more on the Michael Foot/Cenotaph controversy see Patrick Wright’s essay ‘A Blue Plaque for the Labour Movement?’, in On Living in an Old Country, Verso, 1985.
p. 136 ‘when events are. .’: The Texture of Memory, p. 263.
p. 138 ‘The thousands of. .’: Philip Larkin, ‘MCMXIV’, Collected Poems (Faber, 1988), p. 128.
p. 141 ‘the great everlasting. .’: quoted in Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring, p. 133.
p. 141 ‘had no pity. .’: from introduction in Wilfred Owen, Collected Poems, pp. 18–19.
p. 142 ‘“I’ve lost my. .’: quoted in Denis Winter, Death’s Men, p. 257.
p. 143 ‘The charred skeletons. .’: Henri Barbusse, War Diary, in Jon Glover and Jon Silkin (eds.), The Penguin Book of First World War Prose, p. 197.
p. 143 ‘the most extraordinary. .’: letter of 13 May 1916, Winds of Change (Macmillan, 1966), p. 82.
p. 143 ‘shells never seem. .’: Julian Symons (ed.), The Essential Wyndham Lewis, p. 23.
p. 143 ‘the famous Cloth. .’: Gunner B. O. Stokes, quoted in Lyn Macdonald, They Called It Passchendaele, p. 190.
p. 143 ‘One ever hangs. .’: ‘At a Calvary near the Ancre’, Wilfred Owen, Collected Poems, p. 82.
p. 144 ‘The Calvary stood. .’: Jon Glover and Jon Silkin (eds.), The Penguin Book of First World War Prose, p. 145.
p. 144 ‘The cemetery at. .’: quoted in Michael Hurd, The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney p. 69.
p. 144 ‘like the edge. .’ and ‘the trees of. .’: The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, p. 279.
p. 146 ‘a landscape of. .’: quoted in Robert Rosenblum, Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition (Thames & Hudson, 1978), p. 29.
p. 146 Robert Musiclass="underline" diary entry for 3 September 1915, Tagebucher, (Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbeck bei Hamburg, 1976), p. 312; translation in Jon Glover and Jon Silkin (eds.), The Penguin Book of First World War Prose, p. 95.
p. 146 ‘a sea of. .’: Lieutenant J. W. Naylor, quoted in Lyn Macdonald, They Called It Passchendaele, p. 188.
p. 146 ‘a dead sea. .’: Undertones of War, p. 221.
p. 146 ‘land-ocean’: The Challenge of the Dead, p. 24.
p. 146 ‘As you look. .’: quoted in Kevin Brownlow, The War, the West and the Wilderness, p. 148.
p. 146 ‘By any earlier. .’: Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition (Thames & Hudson, 1978), p. 13.
p. 149 ‘skinned, gouged, flayed. .’: Peter Vansittart (ed.), Letters from the Front (Constable, 1984), p. 217.
p. 149 ‘In point of. .’: p. 150.
p. 149 ‘plain of lost. .’: War Diary, in Jon Glover and Jon Silkin (eds.), The Penguin Book of First World War Prose, p. 150.
p. 150 ‘The old church. .’: The Challenge of the Dead, p. 256.
p. 150 ‘In a later. .’: In Flanders Fields, p. 296.
p. 150 ‘Aerial photos of. .’: Haig’s Command, p. 46.
p. 150 The vanished villages of Verdun: for an evocation of the topographical and historical legacy of Verdun see the last two parts — ‘Aftermath’ and ‘Epilogue’ — of Alistair Horne, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916.
p. 150 ‘Theory of Ruin. .’: Inside the Third Reich (Sphere, 1971), pp. 97–8.
p. 151 ‘special teams spent. .’: The Rebel (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1971), p. 154.
p. 151 ‘a sponge, an. .’: Jean Rouaud, Fields of Glory, p. 133.
p. 152 ‘I am beginning. .’: diary entry for 7 October, quoted in Trevor Wilson, The Myriad Faces of War, p. 751.
p. 152 ‘We didn’t really. .’: John Grout, quoted in Ronald Blythe, Akenfield (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1972), p. 62.
p. 152 ‘reveals hardly the. .’: Denis Winter, Death’s Men, p. 255.