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p. 28 ‘All this was. .’: quoted in David Cannadine, ‘Death, Grief and Mourning in Modern Britain’, in Joachim Whalley (ed.), Mirrors of Mortality , p. 224.

p. 28 Fabian Ware: quoted in Cannadine, ibid., p. 197.

p. 30 The draft of Owen’s ‘Apologia Pro Poemate Meo’ is reproduced in Dominic Hibberd, Wilfred Owen: The Last Year , p. 74.

p. 30 ‘was a silence. .’: ‘The Untellable’, New Society , 11 May 1978, p. 317.

p. 31 ‘the very pulse. .’: Armistice Day Supplement, 12 November 1920, p. i.

p. 31 For fuller accounts of the evolution of the various rituals of Remembrance see the works listed in the Select Bibliography by Bob Bushaway, David Cannadine, George Mosse and Richard Garrett.

p. 32n ‘treated as part. .’: Fallen Soldiers , p. 49. For a thorough discussion of changing attitudes to the war dead see ibid., pp. 3–50.

p. 34 ‘Horrible beastliness of. .’: from Owen’s draft list of contents for his proposed book of poems, reproduced by Dominic Hibberd, Wilfred Owen: The Last Year , p. 123.

p. 35 ‘grimly appalling. .’ and ‘the very depths. .’: Images of Wartime , p. 50.

p. 35 ‘The main purpose. .’: The Body in Pain , p. 63. I am grateful to Valentine Cunningham for bringing this book to my attention.

p. 35 ‘before the Great. .’: The Old Lie , p. 137.

p. 36 ‘begloried sonnets’ and ‘second-hand phrases’: Collected Works , p. 237.

p. 36 ‘part of the. .’: The Art of Ted Hughes , 2nd edn (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1978), p. 30.

p. 38 ‘how great a. .’: from Blunden’s Memoir of Owen, reproduced in Wilfred Owen, Collected Poems , p. 147 (my italics).

p. 38 ‘even the men. .’: ‘My Country Right or Left’, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters , vol. 1, pp. 589–90.

p. 38 ‘we young writers. .’, et al.: Lions and Shadows , pp. 74–6.

p. 39 ‘became conscious of. .’ and ‘was that it. .’: George Orwell, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters , vol. 1, pp. 589–90.

p. 39 ‘came home deepest. .’: from introduction in Wilfred Owen, Collected Poems , p. 12.

p. 39 ‘easy acceptance of. .’: Edward Mendelson (ed.), The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings 1927–1939 (Faber, 1977), p. 212.

p. 39 ‘the propagandist lie. .’: quoted in Samuel Hynes. The Auden Generation , p. 249.

p. 39 ‘produced envy rather. .’ and ‘Even in our. .’: Friends Apart , p. 91.

p. 40 ‘An Unveiling’: Collected Poems , p. 204.

p. 41 ‘a real Cenotaph’: quoted by Christopher Ridgeway in introduction to Richard Aldington, Death of a Hero.

p. 41 ‘a memorial in. .’: Death of a Hero , p. 8.

p. 41 ‘What passing-bells for. .’: Collected Poems , p. 44.

p. 42 ‘the official record. .’ and ‘vetted so as. .’: Haig’s Command , p. 4. For counter-charges concerning Winter’s own manipulation of his material see John Hussey, ‘The Case Against Haig: Mr Denis Winter’s Evidence’, Stand To: The Journal of the Western Front Association (winter 1992), pp. 15–17.

p. 42 ‘passive suffering. .’: from introduction to Oxford Book of Modern Verse (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1936), p. xxxiv.

p. 43 ‘records of [Owen’s]. .’: facsimile edition reprinted by the Imperial War Museum 1990, p. v.

p. 43 ‘almost a spirit. .’: ‘The Real Wilfred’, Required Writing , p. 230.

p. 43 ‘existed for some. .’: ibid., p. 228.

p. 43 ‘the pall of. .’: David Cannadine, ‘Death, Grief and Mourning in Modern Britain’, in Joachim Whalley (ed.), Mirrors of Mortality , p. 233.

p. 44 For more on spiritualism in the 1920s see David Cannadine, ibid., pp. 227–31.

p. 44 ‘prophecies in reverse. .’: Camera Lucida (Hill & Wang, New York, 1981), p. 87.

p. 44 ‘I began to. .’: ‘To Please a Shadow’, Less than One (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1987), p. 370.

p. 44 ‘W. O. seems. .’: letter to Robert Conquest, 9 January 1975, in Anthony Thwaite (ed.) Selected Letters (Faber, 1992), p. 519.

p. 44 ‘Grey monotony lending. .’: P. J. Kavanagh (ed.), Collected Poems , p. 36.

p. 44 ‘I again work. .’: Felix Klee (ed.) Diaries 1898–1918 (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1964), p. 380.

p. 45 ‘great sunk silences’: Isaac Rosenberg, ‘Dead Man’s Dump’, Collected Works , p. 111.

p. 45 ‘Those Harmsworth books. .’: Collected Poems (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983), p. 40.

p. 45 ‘sepia November. .’: New and Collected Poems (Robson Books, 1980), p. 63.

p. 45 ‘in black and. .’: The Post-Modernist Always Rings Twice (Fourth Estate, 1992), p. 79.

p. 45 ‘Having seen all. .’: Wilfred Owen, ‘Insensibility’, Collected Poems , p. 37.

p. 45 ‘the choice of. .’: ‘Vlamertinghe: Passing the Château, July, 1917’, Undertones of War , p. 256.

p. 45 ‘The year itself. .’: The Wars , p. 11.

p. 46 ‘long uneven lines. .’: Collected Poems (Faber, 1988), p. 128.

p. 46 ‘The Send-Off’: Collected Poems , p. 46.

p. 47 ‘Agony stares from. .’: Edmund Blunden, ‘The Zonnebeke Road’, Undertones of War , p. 250.

p. 47 For a fuller account of restrictions on photographers see Jane Carmichael, First World War Photographers , pp. 11–21.

p. 48 ‘In the account. .’: the German Field Marshal was Paul Von Hindenberg, quoted in Peter Vansittart, Voices from the Great War , p. 145.

p. 48 ‘lay three or. .’: Peter Vansittart (ed.), Letters from the Front (Constable, 1984), p. 209.

p. 49 ‘Where do they. .’: quoted in Jon Glover and Jon Silkin (eds.), The Penguin Book of First World War Prose , p. 63.

p. 50 ‘of the very. .’ and ‘an incomprehensible look. .’: Collected Letters , p. 521.

p. 50 Owen quoting Tagore: Jon Stallworthy, Wilfred Owen , p. 267.

p. 50 ‘As under a. .’: ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’, Collected Poems , p. 55.

p. 50 ‘indirectly by watching. .’: letter to Susan Owen, 4 (or 5) October 1918, Collected Letters , p. 580.

p. 50 ‘I saw their. .’: ‘The Show’, Collected Poems , p. 50.

p. 51 ‘O Love, your. .’: ‘Greater Love’ ibid., p. 41.

p. 51 ‘“O sir, my. .’: ‘The Sentry’, ibid., p. 61.

p. 51 ‘If in some. .’: ibid., p. 55.

p. 51 ‘not concerned with. .’: ‘Preface’, Collected Poems , p. 31.

p. 51 ‘not interested in. .’: quoted in Richard Whelan, Robert Capa: A Biography , p. 176.

p. 52 ‘were swarming with. .’: ibid., p. 235.

p. 55 ‘Tenderness: something on. .’: from Henri Barbusse’s War Diary , in Jon Glover and Jon Silkin (eds.), The Penguin Book of First World War Prose , p. 195.

p. 55 ‘I tell you. .’, ‘could not cry. .’, et al.: Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front , pp. 46–7.

p. 55 ‘He spoke of. .’: (Picador, 1993), p. 111.

p. 56 ‘a herdsman’, ‘a Shepherd of. .’ and ‘a cattle-driver’: letters of 31 August and 1 September 1918, Collected Letters , pp. 570–71.

p. 56 ‘herded from the. .’: ‘The Sentry’, Collected Poems , p. 61.

p. 56 ‘when the Other. .’: The Great War and Modern Memory , p. 239.

p. 56 ‘happy in a. .’: entry for 15 February 1917, Diaries 1915–1918 , p. 132.