The Missing of the Somme (21 page)
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Authors: Geoff Dyer
ANTHOLOGIES
Fussell, Paul,
The Bloody Game
, Scribners, 1991.
Gardner, Brian,
Up the Line to Death
, revised edn, Methuen, 1976.
Glover, Jon, and Silkin, Jon,
The Penguin Book of First World War Prose
, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1989.
Macdonald, Lyn,
1914–1918: Voices and Images from the Great War
, Michael Joseph, 1988.
Silkin, Jon,
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
, 2nd edn, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1981.
Stallworthy, Jon,
The Oxford Book of War Poetry
, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988.
Vansittart, Peter,
Voices from the Great War
, Cape, 1981.
* * *
UPDATE TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY
There has been a resurgence of interest in the First World War since
The Missing of the Somme
came out in 1994. I have read only a fraction of the many books published
since then, but recommend the following.
Arthur, Max (ed.),
Forgotten Voices of the Great War
, Ebury Press, London, 2002.
Bourke, Joanna,
Dismembering the Male: Men’s Bodies, Britain and the Great War
, Reaktion, London, 1996.
Davis, Wade,
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
, Bodley Head, London, 2011.
Englund, Peter,
The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
, Profile, London, 2011.
Fergusson, Niall,
The Pity of War
, Allen Lane, London, 1998.
Hochschild, Adam,
To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain
, Macmillan, London, 2011.
Keegan, John,
The First World War
, Hutchinson, London, 1998.
Stamp, Gavin,
The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme,
Profile, London, 2006.
Stevenson, David,
1914-1918: The History of the First World War
, Allen Lane, London, 2004.
Stone, Norman,
WW1: A Short History
, Allen Lane, London, 2007.
Winter, Jay,
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History
, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank my friends Paul Bonaventura, Chris Mitchell and Mark Hayhurst for reading an early draft of the manuscript and making many useful suggestions. (I am
especially indebted to Mark whose quick reactions prevented us from getting killed – thanks to Paul’s reckless driving – in Flanders.)
I am grateful to the editors of
Esquire
, the
Independent
, the
Observer
and
New Statesman & Society
for giving me space to try out draft versions of some
of these pages; also to Patrick Early for the opportunity to lecture (in Belgrade of all places) on Wilfred Owen – and to David Punter for his helpful response to that lecture.
Thanks also to Ian Watson in Paris for encouragment and provocative suggestions, to Jeremy Young for his photographs, to Jane Pugh for the loan of an album of pictures, and to Xandra Hardie,
Charles Drazin and Alexandra Pringle.
An award from the Kay Blundell Trust enabled me to complete the manuscript.
My ongoing debt to John Berger is too extensive to be adequately acknowledged here.
INDEX
Adorno, Theodor
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Minima Moralia
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Aldington, Richard
Death of a Hero
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Allward, Walter
Amundsen, Roald
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Angel, John
Exeter Memorial
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Armistice Day (anniversaries)
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Asquith, Cynthia
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Attenborough, Richard
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‘Spain’
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Baker, Herbert
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Barbusse, Henri
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Under Fire
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War Diary
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Barker, Pat
The Eye in the Door
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Regeneration
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Barlach, Ernst
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Barthes, Roland
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Battle of the Somme, The
(film)
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Bean, Charles,
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Binyon, Laurence
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‘For the Fallen’
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Blomfield, Reginald
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Menin Gate Memorial
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Blunden, Edmund
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‘1916 seen from 1921’
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Undertones of War
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Blythe, Ronald
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Bowers, Henry
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Brittain, Vera
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Brooke, Rupert
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Brueghel, Pieter
The Parable of the Blind
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Bryant, Arthur
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Capa, Robert
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Carrington, Charles
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Bailleulmont
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Blighty Valley
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Caterpillar Valley
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Connaught
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Langemark
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Notre Dame de Lorette
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Owl Trench
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Railway Hollow
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Cenotaph (Lutyens)
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Chapman, Guy
A Passionate Prodigality
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Church Crafts League
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Clark, Philip Lindsey
Southwark Memorial
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Clemesha, Frederick Chapman
Canadian Memorial at St Julien
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Constantine, David
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Cornhill Magazine
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Cummings, E.E.
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Dorgeles, Raymond
Wooden Crosses
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The Waste Land
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Faulkner, William
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Faulks, Sebastian
Findley, Timothy
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Tender is the Night
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Foot, Michael
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French, John
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Friedrich, Caspar David
Abbey Under Oak Trees
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The Monk by the Sea
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Fussell, Paul
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The Bloody Game
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The Great War and Modern Memory
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Gauquié, H. (Chipilly Memorial)
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Graham, Stephen
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The Challenge of the Dead
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Griffith, D.W.
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Severn and Somme
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Hardy, Thomas
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The Dynasts
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Harris, Arthur (‘Bomber’)
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Hemingway, Ernest
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A Farewell to Arms
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Hess, Rudolf
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Hiscock, Eric
The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling
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Hitler, Adolf
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Huizinga, Johan
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Huntford, Roland
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Hynes, Samuel
Imperial War Graves Commission
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Ingham, A
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Isherwood, Christopher
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Hoylake and West Kirby Memorial
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Labour
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No Man’s Land
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Paddington Memorial
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Royal Artillery Memorial
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‘Wipers’
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John, William Goscombe
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Port Sunlight Memorial
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Johnstone, Philip
‘High Wood’
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Jones, David
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Junger, Ernst
Storm of Steel
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Keats, John
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Kennington, Edward
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‘The Gardner’
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‘Recessional’
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Klee, Paul
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Kollwitz, Käthe
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Korner, Karl Theodor
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Ledward, Gilbert
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Guards Division Memorial
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Lehmbruck, Willhelm
The Fallen
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Head of a Thinker
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Littlewood, Joan
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Cenotaph
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Memorial to the Missing of the Somme (Thiepval)
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McCarthy, Cormac
All the Pretty Horses
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1914
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1914: Voices from the Great War
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Somme
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They Called it Passchendaele
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Macmillan, Harold
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Manning, Frederic
The Middle Parts of Fortune (or Her Private We)
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Marsden, Walter
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St Anne’s on Sea Memorial
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Masefield, John
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memorials
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Bradford
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Cenotaph (Lutyens)
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Chipilly (Gaugié)
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Croydon (Montford)
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Elland
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Exeter (Angel)
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Flers (Toft)
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Huntingdon (Scott)
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Keighley
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Menin Gate at Ypres (Blomfield)
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Paddington (Jagger)
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Port Sunlight (John)
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Royal Artillery (Jagger)
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St Anne’s on Sea (Marsden)
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St Julien (Clemesha)
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Sheffield (in the Somme)
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Southwark Memorial (Clark)
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Stalybridge
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Streatham
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Montford, P.J.
Croydon Memorial
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Moore, Henry
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Morris, William
The Well at the World’s End
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Mottram, R.H.
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The Spanish Farm Trilogy
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Musil, Robert
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Nash, Paul
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Neizvestny, Ernst
Soldier being Bayoneted
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Newfoundland Memorial Park
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Oates, Titus
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Oh What a Lovely War
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Ondaatje, Michael
Orwell, George (Eric Blair)
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O’Sullivan, T. H.
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Owen, Wilfred
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‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’
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‘Apologia pro Poemate Meo’
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‘Dulce et Decorum Est’
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‘Greater Love’
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‘Hospital Barge’
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‘Insensibility’
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‘Mental Cases’
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‘The Next War’
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‘The Send-off’
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‘The Sentry’
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‘The Show’
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‘Song of Songs’
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Paddington Memorial (Jagger)
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Parker, Peter
Passos, John Dos
USA
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Pétain, Henri Philippe
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Picasso, Pablo
Guernica
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Porter, Peter
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Pound, Ezra
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Read, Herbert
In Retreat
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Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front
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Remembrance Day
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Rider-Rider, William
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Rimbaud, Isabelle
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Rivers, W.H.R.
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Robbins, Keith
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Rosenberg, Issac
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Rouad, Jean
Royal Academy, The
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