Great War Fiction

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Walking around Huddersfield town centre yesterday morning, I spotted only six people wearing poppies.

[This is a version of the chapter I wrote for the Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War (2021) (edited by Ralf Schneider and Jane Potter).]

I’ve added another paper to the blog.

I’ve just added another paper to the list on the right.

I wrote about this for the Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War (2021) (edited by Ralf Schneider and Jane Potter), a work of pretty encyclopaedic scope.

I’ve neglected this blog over the past couple of years – mostly because my interests have strayed away from the Great War.

I’ve had an email from a setup called Feedspot which says that Great War Fiction is ranked second among military book blogs.

Here, from the Lyttelton Times, a New Zealand newspaper of 1911, is yet another proof of the strange side-effects of Rudyard Kipling’s immense celebrity:

After I retired as a teacher, I applied to Oxford Brookes to research a Ph.D. on the prose of the Great War.