The Fierce Light
The Battle of the Somme July-November 1916: Prose and Poetry
Published on 15. November 2006
336 pages
978-0-7524-9616-0 (ISBN)
Description
Contains a selection of prose and poetry from 38 contemporary British, Australian and New Zealand writers who fought during the Battle of the Somme. This work tells the stories of different men from different backgrounds.
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English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
File size
1,28 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-9616-0 (9780752496160)
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11/2006
The History Press Ltd
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Content
- Intro
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Alphabetical List of Authors
- Introduction
- On Revisiting the Somme
- July 1916
- William Noel Hodgson: Lt., 9th Battalion Devonshire Regiment
- Cecil Lewis: Flt. Lt. Royal Flying Corps
- Edward Liveing: 2nd Lt., 1/12th Battalion London Regiment (The Rangers)
- Geoffrey Dearmer: Lt. 1st/2nd Battalion (Royal Fusiliers)
- Gerald Brenan: Captain, VIIIth Corps Cyclists Battalion
- Frank Crozier: Lt. Colonel, 9th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
- Rowland Feilding: Captain, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards
- Claude Penrose: Captain, Attached 4th Field Survey Company, Royal Garrison Artillery
- Siegfried Sassoon: 2nd Lt., 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers
- Rowland Feilding: Captain, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards
- David Jones: Private, 15th (1st London Welsh) Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers
- Llewelyn Wyn Griffith: Captain, 15th (1st London Welsh) Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers
- Cyril Winterbotham: Lt., 1st/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
- Giles Eyre: Rifleman, 2nd Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps
- Graham Seton Hutchison: Captain, 33rd Battalion Machine-Gun Corps
- Charles Carrington [Edmonds]: 2nd Lt., 1st/5th Battalion Royal
- Robert Graves: Captain, 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers
- Gerald Brenan: Captain, VIII Corps Cyclists Battalion
- Robert Graves: Captain, 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers
- Frank Richards: Private, 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers
- Siegfried Sassoon: 2nd Lt., 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers
- Ford Madox Hueffer: 2nd Lt., 9th Battalion Welch Regiment
- Ewart Alan Mackintosh: Lt., 5th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
- Adrian Consett Stephen: Lt., Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Field Artillery
- August 1916
- Ewart Alan Mackintosh: Lt., 5th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
- Raymond Asquith: Lt., 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards
- Max Plowman: [Mark VII] 2nd Lt., 10th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
- Leslie Coulson: Sergeant, 1st/12th Battalion London Regiment (The Rangers)
- Alan Alexander Milne: Lt., 11th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
- Graham Greenwell: Lt., 4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
- Adrian Consett Stephen: Lt., Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Field Artillery
- Frank Richards: Private, 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers
- Francis Hitchcock: Captain, 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment
- Robert Vernede: 2nd Lt., 3rd Battalion The Rifle Brigade
- Frederic Manning: Private, 7th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
- Graham Greenwell: Lt., 4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
- Francis Hitchcock: Captain, 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment
- September 1916
- Francis Hitchcock: Captain, 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment
- Robert Vernede: 2nd Lt., 3rd Battalion The Rifle Brigade
- Edmund Blunden: Lt., 11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
- Thomas Michael Kettle: Lt., 9th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers
- Father William Doyle, SJ: Attached 8th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
- Raymond Asquith: Lt., 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards
- Rowland Feilding: Major, 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers
- Edward Wyndham Tennant: Lt., 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards
- Father William Doyle, SJ: Attached 8th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
- Arthur Conway Young: 2nd Lt., 7th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
- Edward Wyndham Tennant: Lt., 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards
- Arthur Graeme West: Captain, 6th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
- Alexander Aitken: 2nd Lt., 1st Otago Battalion (New Zealand Expeditionary Force)
- Adrian Consett Stephen: Lt., Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Field Artillery
- October 1916
- Leslie Coulson: Sergeant, Attached 1st/12th Battalion London Regiment (The Rangers)
- Edmund Blunden: Lt., 11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
- Frank Richards: Private, 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers
- Frederic Manning: Private, 7th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry
- Max Plowman: 2nd Lt., 10 Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
- November 1916
- Edmund Blunden: Lt., 11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
- Frank Richards: Private, 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers
- Graham Greenwell: Captain, 4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
- Sidney Rogerson: Lt., 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
- Edmund Blunden: Lt., 11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
- Ewart Alan Mackintosh: Lt., 5th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
- David Rorie: Captain R.A.M.C. (Attached 51st Highland Division)
- Alan Patrick Herbert: Lt., Hawke Battalion, Royal Naval Division
- Appendices:
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Maps
- Select Bibliography
- Biographical notes
- Acknowledgements
