Diana Manners Has One More Quiet Night; Wilfred Owen Embittered; Rowland...
Diana Manners doesn’t trust the rumors of the war’s imminent demise, nor is she confident that her Duff, whose leave will shortly expire, will remain safe. Arlington Street October 15 This is my last...
View ArticleAlfred Hale’s Waterloo; Olaf Stapledon Back to the Painful Grind; Rowland...
Today, a century back, Alfred Hale breakfasted at the Union Jack Club and then met a lady friend at Waterloo Station. Loaded up with my haversack, water bottle and gas mask slung over my shoulders,...
View ArticleDuff Cooper Takes a Long, Low View; Christmas Wishes from Salter Clark;...
Ladies and Gentleman, Duff Cooper has left Paris. For better or worse, he also left no record of his escapades during the last few days… B.E.F., October 18 Amiens is rather depressing after Paris. The...
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Edward Heron-Allen Flattened by Ypres; The Worries and Losses of Diana...
The Cloth Hall, Ypres, probably 1918 Edward Heron-Allen had a very full day, today, a century back. He and the journalists he is accompanying (and debunking) drove through no fewer than thirteen towns,...
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Rowland Feilding Marches Triumphant; Herbert Read and the Modern Future; Duff...
We’re all over the place, today, but since Rowland Feilding had to face my ire at the stupidity of punitive warfare alone, yesterday, I’ll start by letting him tell us an altogether nicer story of the...
View ArticleEdward Heron-Allen Considers His Privilege, Wilfred Owen on the Ongoing...
Oh, it’s one of those days, today: five different entries–and two numbered lists! But it’s not all bad… First, a grateful return. Edward Heron-Allen‘s whirlwind tour of liberated France and Belgium has...
View ArticleRichard Aldington’s Life is Ruined; Olaf Stapledon’s Future Gets a Decorative...
As the end draws near, we have three veterans in three very different situations today, a century back. One stands at the beginning of the end, another at the cusp of the beginning, and the third in...
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Vivian de Sola Pinto is Overtaken by the Old World; One More Letter from Kate...
We’ll open today, a century back, with our farthest-forward writer. But even the eager Vivian de Sola Pinto is no longer out in front of the entire B.E.F. It’s all coming together, now, as the...
View ArticleThe Great Calm
At 5 A.M., the representatives of Germany signed the Armistice that had been under negotiation for four days. At 11:00, it took effect, and the war ended, almost exactly a week after Wilfred Owen was...
View ArticleOlaf Stapledon, First and Last
For Olaf Stapledon and Agnes Miller, the sudden-seeming end to the war meant a collapse of the forces which had conspired to keep them half a world apart: now, after waiting for so many long months and...
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