Passionate Prodigality
Fragments of Autobiography
$60.91
- Hardcover
- Release Date
3 June 2019
Summary
When A Passionate Prodigality was first published in 1933, it was hailed as one of the finest English works to have come out of the First World War. Today, this memoir reads with a graphic immediacy, not merely in the descriptions of the filth, shock, and carnage that characterized the struggle, but in its evocation of men at war, “certain soldiers who have now become a small quantity of Christian dust.”
Stylish, honest, and eloquent, A Passionate Prodigality is less…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526750112 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1526750112 |
| Author: | Guy Chapman |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Military |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Release Date: | 3 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 602g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Guy Chapman
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, Vain Glory (an anthology of writing about the Frist World War) and his autobiography A Kind of Survivor which was edited by his wife, the novelist Storm Jameson.
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