A Passionate Prodigality
Fragments of Autobiography
Published on 12. November 2020
288 pages
978-1-5267-5012-9 (ISBN)
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This classic WWI memoir by a decorated infantryman and historian presents a vivid account of life in the trenches on the Western Front.
During World War One, Major Guy Chapman, OBE MC, served in the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery. Joining soon after war was declared, Chapman was stationed in France and fought in the Battle of Arras.
When Chapman's memoir, A Passionate Prodigality, was first published in 1933 it was hailed as one of the finest English works to have come out of the Great War. Today it reads with a graphic immediacy, not merely in the descriptions of the shock and carnage of war, but in its evocation of the men who fought-"certain soldiers who have now become a small quantity of Christian dust."
During World War One, Major Guy Chapman, OBE MC, served in the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery. Joining soon after war was declared, Chapman was stationed in France and fought in the Battle of Arras.
When Chapman's memoir, A Passionate Prodigality, was first published in 1933 it was hailed as one of the finest English works to have come out of the Great War. Today it reads with a graphic immediacy, not merely in the descriptions of the shock and carnage of war, but in its evocation of the men who fought-"certain soldiers who have now become a small quantity of Christian dust."
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Guy Chapman, OBE, MC, served with the 13th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers in France, Belgium and Germany from 1914 to 1920. Born in 1889, he died in 1972, having been a barrister, soldier, publisher, teacher, student of economics, professor of modern history and writer. His other books include studies of William Beckford, the French Third Republic, the collapse of France in 1940. He also compiled Vain Glory (an anthology of writing about the First World War) and published his autobiography A Kind of Survivor which was edited by his wife, the novelist Storm Jameson.
