Wednesday 11 November 2009

Remembrance Day - autobiographies WW I

They abound, do they not? From Abe Books:

Trench Literature

The literature generated by World War I - from A Farewell to Arms to the poetry of Sassoon, Graves, Brooke, and Owen - serves as a lasting reminder of this nightmarish conflict. But what did the ordinary soldiers read in the trenches? The answer is almost anything from the most famous writers to authors who are little known today. Reading material was in such demand that soldiers on all sides resorted to publishing their own trench journals.


The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Private Spud Tamson by Captain R. W. Campbell

The Lady of the Bridge by W.W. Jacobs

The Lost World by A. Conan Doyle


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