Geoff Dyer - The Missing of the Somme

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.

p. 153 ‘what the Nazis. .’, et al.: ‘Messages in a Bottle’, New Left Review (no. 200, July/August 1993), p. 6.

p. 154 ‘trees not quite. .’: p. 18.

p. 154 ‘when the trenches. .’: The Old Frontline (Heinemann, 1917), p. 11.

p. 154 ‘all semblance gone. .’: Journey to the Western Front, Twenty Years After (G. Bell & Son, 1936), p. 1.

p. 155 ‘Nature herself conspires. .’: Paul Berry and Alan Bishop (eds.), Testament of a Generation: The Journalism of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby (Virago, 1985), p. 210.

p. 155 ‘And pile them. .’: Archibald MacLeish (ed.), The Complete Poems (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1970), p. 136.

p. 155 ‘A farmer on. .’: The English Patient (Bloomsbury, 1992), p. 123.

p. 156 ‘the ground breaks. .’: ‘A Calvary on the Somme’, Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, Newcastle, 1991), p. 135.

p. 156 ‘Corpses, rats, old. .’: Peter Vansittart (ed.), Letters from the Front (Constable, 1984), p. 263.

p. 158 ‘From that moment. .’: quoted in Martin Middlebrook, The First Day on the Somme , p. 316.

p. 158 ‘These apparently rude. .’: The Middle Parts of Fortune , p. 205.

p. 159 ‘The century of. .’: a revised version of this lecture was published as ‘Ev’ry Time we Say Goodbye’ in Keeping a Rendezvous , Granta 1992.

p. 162 ‘there are more. .’: The Plague (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1948), p. 251.

Books quoted in the text with no real connection with the war or the main themes of the book are not listed here; nor are volumes of poetry which happen to contain the odd poem about the war. Bibliographical details for these titles are given in the Notes. Place of publication is London unless stated otherwise.

FICTION, MEMOIRS, POETRY

Aldington, Richard, Death of a Hero , Hogarth, 1984.

Barbusse, Henri, Under Fire , trans. W. Fitzwater Wray, Dent, 1988.

Barker, Pat, Regeneration , Viking, 1991.

Barker, Pat, The Eye in the Door , Viking, 1993.

Blunden, Edmund, Undertones of War , Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1982.

Chapman, Guy, A Passionate Prodigality , Buchan & Enright, Southampton, 1985.

Faulks, Sebastian, Birdsong , Hutchinson, 1993.

Findley, Timothy, The Wars , Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1978.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Tender is the Night , Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1955.

Graham, Stephen, The Challenge of the Dead , Cassell, 1921.

Graves, Robert, Goodbye to All That , Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1960.

Gurney, Ivor, Collected Poems , ed. P. J. Kavanagh, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1982.

Gurney, Ivor, War Letters , ed. R. K. R. Thornton, Hogarth, 1984.

Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms , Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1935.

Hill, Susan, Strange Meeting , Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1989.

Hiscock, Eric, The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling , Arlington Books, 1976.

Isherwood, Christopher, Lions and Shadows , Hogarth, 1938.

Jones, David, In Parenthesis , Faber, 1987.

Manning, Frederic, The Middle Parts of Fortune (also known as Her Privates We ), Buchan & Enright, Southampton, 1986.

Owen, Wilfred, Collected Poems , edited with an introduction and notes by C. Day Lewis and a Memoir by Edmund Blunden, Chatto & Windus, 1963.

Owen, Wilfred, Collected Letters , edited by Harold Owen and John Bell, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1967.

Owen, Wilfred, The Complete Poems and Fragments , 2 vols., edited by Jon Stallworthy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983.

Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front , trans. A. W. Wheen, Picador, 1987.

Rosenberg, Isaac, Collected Works , Chatto & Windus, 1984.

Rouaud, Jean, Fields of Glory , trans. Ralph Manheim, Collins Harvill, 1992.

Sassoon, Siegfried, Siegfried’s Journey 1916–1920 , Faber, 1945.

Sassoon, Siegfried, Collected Poems 1908–1956 , Faber, 1961.

Sassoon, Siegfried, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston , Faber, 1972.

Sassoon, Siegfried, Diaries 1915–1918 , ed. Rupert Hart-Davis, Faber, 1983.

Toynbee, Philip, Friends Apart , MacGibbon & Kee, 1954.

HISTORIES AND CULTURAL STUDIES

Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities , Verso, 1983.

Babington, Anthony, For the Sake of Example , Leo Cooper/Secker & Warburg, 1983.

Bergonzi, Bernard, Heroes’ Twilight , Constable, 1965.

Bond, Brian (ed.), The First World War and British Military History , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991.

Boorman, Derek, At the Going Down of the Sun: British First World War Memorials , Sessions, York, 1988.

Borg, Alan, War Memorials , Leo Cooper, 1991.

Brownlow, Kevin, The War, the West and the Wilderness , Secker & Warburg, 1979.

Bushaway, Bob, ‘Name upon Name: The Great War and Remembrance’, in Roy Porter (ed.), Myths of the English , Polity, Cambridge, 1992.

Cannadine, David, ‘Death, Grief and Mourning in Modern Britain’, in Joachim Whalley (ed.), Mirrors of Mortality , Europa, 1984.

Capa, Robert, Photographs , edited by Richard Whelan and Cornell Capa, Faber, 1985.

Carmichael, Jane, First World War Photographers , Routledge, 1989.

Clark, Alan, The Donkeys , Pimlico, 1991.

Compton, Ann (ed.), Charles Sargeant Jagger: War and Peace Sculpture , Imperial War Museum, 1985.

Coombs, Rose E. B., Before Endeavours Fade , After the Battle Publications, 1976.