A fast-paced and vivid narrative of the most horrific campaign in history: the four-year slaughter around the Belgian town of Ypres 1914-18. Switching seamlessly between the generals' headquarters, the politicians' councils and -- above all -- the mud and blood of the trenches, this is a wonderfully accessible history. Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler both fought in the frontline at Ypres: Groom reveals what happened to both men. We see the campaign through their eyes and the experience of other officers and men, including the war poet Edmund Blunden (later professor of poetry at Oxford). From the desperate defence put up by the tiny British regular army in 1914 to the infamous Passchendaele offensive, this is popular history at its best.
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Enlisting at the age of twenty in 1916, Edmund Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele, describing the latter as 'murder, not only to the troops, but to their singing faiths and hopes'. This autobiography records poet Blunden's experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders.
Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden, John Keegan
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This ceremonial ode to St. Cecilia was commissioned by the St. Cecilia's Day Festival Committee, and was first performed at the Royal Albert Hall in 1947. The text is a beautiful and devout celebration by Edmund Blunden, and the work is intended for performance by a large SATB chorus. A Piano reduction of the original orchestral score provides an intricate accompaniment.
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In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Enlisting at the age of twenty in 1916, Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele, describing the latter as 'murder, not only to the troops, but to their singing faiths and hopes'. In his compassionate yet unsentimental prose, he tells of the endurance, heroism, and despair found among the officers and men of his battalion. The selection of Blunden's poems show how he found hope in the natural landscape; the only thing that survives the terrible betrayal enacted in the Flanders fields.
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"Railway Rhymes" is probably the first time that the poetry of railways has been brought together into one dedicated volume. Here will certainly be found the old favourites - Philip Larkin's "Whitsun Weddings", W.H. Auden's "Night Mail", John Betjeman's "Distant View of a Provincial Town", - but equally this little book is stuffed with forgotten gems like Edmund Blunden's "Two Wars" and Patricia Beer's "The Branch Line". Divided up into chapters entitled Navigation, Engineering, Waiting, Travelling and Musing, "Railway Rhymes" is the perfect pocket companion for waiting room and train compartment alike.
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The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Fussell illuminates a war that changed a generation and revolutionised the way we see the world. He explores the British experience on the western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing on the various literary means by which it has been remembered, conventionalized and mythologized. It is also about the literary dimensions of the experience itself. Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for writers who have most effectively memorialized the Great War as an historical experience with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning. These writers include the classic memoirists Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Edmund Blunden, and poets David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen. In his new introduction Fussell discusses the critical responses to his work, the authors and works that inspired his own writing, and the elements which influence our understanding and memory of war. Fussell also shares the stirring experience of his research at the Imperial War Museum's Department of Documents.Fussell includes a new Suggested Further Reading List.
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An anthology of cricket writing which ranges from the game's origins in the Weald to the contemporary professional (and increasingly commercial) sport. The contributors include C .L. R. James, Mike Brearley, Stephen Fry and Edmund Blunden.
The Spirit of Cricket by Christopher Martin-Jenkins
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The First World War had far more influence on subsequent literature than did the experience of the Second World War. The Poets of the Great War series was launched recently with a well-received volume on Wilfred Owen, a gifted poet who was killed a week before the Armistice. Edmund Blunden represents the second type of war poet, one who survived the war but whose later career, in this case spanning nearly sixty years, was forever marked by his wartime experiences.Blunden wrote one of the most acclaimed...
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Oh Fair To See is one of several volumes of songs by Gerald Finzi. This edition is for High Voice and Piano and includes settings of poems by Thomas Hardy, Christina Rossetti, Edward Shanks, Ivor Gurney, Edmunds Blunden and Robert Bridges.
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