Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: TWO VOCATIONS 1
5. At War with Ken Burns 13
6. In the Whirl and Muddle of War 27
7. War Stories 37
8. A Critic Looks at War 49
9. Hardy and the Battle- God 69
10. Yeats’s Wars 91
11. Ignorantly into War 113
12. Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier 119
13. An Introduction to Graeme West 131
14. The Odds on Edward Thomas 145
15. E. E. Cummings’s The Enormous Room 153
16. Cecil Lewis’s Sagittarius Rising 165
17. The Death of Landscape 175
18. Verdun and Back 189
19. Index of Names and Titles 207