The Missing of the Somme

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

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.

Eksteins, Modris, Rites of Spring, Bantam, 1989.

Elsen, Albert E., Modern European Sculpture 1918–1945: Unknown Beings and Other Realities, Braziller, New York, 1979.

Ferro, Marc, The Great War, Routledge, 1973.

Foot, M. R. D., Art and War, Headline, 1990.

Fussell, Paul, The Great War and Modern Memory, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1975.

Fussell, Paul, Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays, Ballantine, New York, 1990.

Garrett, Richard, The Final Betrayal, Buchan & Enright, Southampton, 1989.

Harries, Meirion and Susie, War Artists, Michael Joseph, 1983.

Hibberd, Dominic, Wilfred Owen: The Last Year, Constable, 1992.

Horne, Alistair, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1964.

Hurd, Michael, The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978.

Hynes, Samuel, A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture, Bodley Head, 1990.

Hynes, Samuel, The Auden Generation, Pimlico, 1992.

Keegan, John, The Face of Battle, Cape, 1976.

Kern, Stephen, The Culture of Time and Space 1880–1918, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1983.

Larkin, Philip, Required Writing, Faber, 1983.

Leed, Eric J., No Man’s Land: Combat and Identity in World War 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1979.

Liddell Hart, B. H., History of the First World War, Cassell, 1970.

Longworth, Philip, The Unending Vigil, Constable, 1967.

Macdonald, Lyn, They Called It Passchendaele, Michael Joseph, 1978.

Macdonald, Lyn, The Roses of No Man’s Land, Michael Joseph, 1980.

Macdonald, Lyn, Somme, Michael Joseph, 1983.

Macdonald, Lyn, 1914, Michael Joseph, 1987.

Middlebrook, Martin, The First Day on the Somme, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1984.

Middlebrook, Martin and Mary, The Somme Battlefields, Viking, 1991.

Moeller, Susan, Shooting War, Basic Books, New York, 1990.

Mosse, George, Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990.

Orwell, George, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, Volume 1, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1970.

Parker, Peter, The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public School Ethos, Constable, 1987.

Pick, Daniel, War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993.

Putkowski, Julian, and Sykes, Julian, Shot at Dawn, revised edn, Leo Cooper, 1992.

Robbins, Keith, The First World War, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984.

Scarry, Elaine, The Body in Pain, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985.

Silkin, Jon, Out of Battle, 2nd edn, Ark, 1987.

Stallworthy, Jon, Wilfred Owen, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1974.

Symons, Julian (ed.), The Essential Wyndham Lewis, André Deutsch, 1989.

Taylor, A. J. P., The First World War, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1966.

Terraine, John, The First World War 1914–18, Macmillan, 1984.

Viney, Nigel, Images of Wartime, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1991.

Virilio, Paul, War and Cinema, trans. Patrick Camiller, Verso, 1989.

Warner, Philip, Field Marshal Earl Haig, Bodley Head, 1991.

Whelan, Richard, Robert Capa: A Biography, Faber, 1985.

Williamson, Henry, Wet Flanders Plain, Gliddon, Norwich, 1989.

Wilson, Trevor, The Myriad Faces of War, Polity, Cambridge, 1986.

Winter, Denis, Death’s Men, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1979.

Winter, Denis, Haig’s Command, Viking, 1991.

Wolff, Leon, In Flanders Fields, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1979.

Young, James E., The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993.

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.

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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.