The Missing of the Somme (20 page)

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 Musil: 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.

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
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