Lord Dunsany brings his lucid and magical prose to the subject of the harsh realities of war by providing a series of vignettes that are at times grim and grounded but also at times eerie and fantastical. Summary by Ben Tucker.
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
The Prayer of the Men of Daleswood
12:33 - Chapter 2
The Road
05:02 - Chapter 3
An Imperial Monument
05:03 - Chapter 4
A Walk to the Trenches
05:10 - Chapter 5
A Walk in Picardy
04:38 - Chapter 6
What Happened on the Night of the Twenty-Seventh
05:56 - Chapter 7
Standing To
02:55 - Chapter 8
The Splendid Traveller
07:44 - Chapter 9
Shells
05:22 - Chapter 10
Two Degrees of Envy
03:48 - Chapter 11
The Master of No Man’s Land
02:59 - Chapter 12
Weeds and Wire
03:34 - Chapter 13
Spring in England and Flanders
03:39 - Chapter 14
The Nightmare Countries
04:46 - Chapter 15
Spring and the Kaiser
02:53 - Chapter 16
Two Songs
03:10 - Chapter 17
The Punishment
07:59 - Chapter 18
The English Spirit
05:35 - Chapter 19
An Investigation Into the Causes and Origin of the War
07:23 - Chapter 20
Lost
03:56 - Chapter 21
The Last Mirage
04:33 - Chapter 22
A Famous Man
04:47 - Chapter 23
The Oases of Death
02:16 - Chapter 24
Anglo-Saxon Tyranny
04:56 - Chapter 25
Memories
04:41 - Chapter 26
The Movement
05:37 - Chapter 27
Nature’s Cad
06:26 - Chapter 28
The Home of Herr Schnitzelhaaser
07:10 - Chapter 29
A Deed of Mercy
04:30 - Chapter 30
Last Scene of All
04:29 - Chapter 31
Old England
04:43