Edward 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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