Description
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive study published to date about John Galsworthy’s philanthropic support for, and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the Great War. It makes available for the first time in a single edition the most significant of his compositions about the war disabled and examining their value as historical documents.
Table of ContentsContents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
John Galsworthy and the Great War: Rediscovery and reappraisal
PART I – Non-fiction
1. Foreword to The Queen’s gift book in aid of Queen Mary’s convalescent auxiliary hospitals for soldiers and sailors who have lost their limb in the war
2. Totally disabled
3. For the maimed – now!
4. Remade or marred: A great national duty
5. The need for reality
6. Kitchener Houses: Occupation and convalescence
7. The sacred work
8. The gist of the matter
9. Looking ahead
10. Spirit and letter
PART II – Fiction
At home in England
11. The recruit
12. Heritage
13. Addresses some soldiers on their future at Hôpital Bénévole in France
14. Flotsam and Jetsam: A reminiscence
15. ‘Cafard’
16. Poirot and Bidan: A recollection
Selected chronology, 1914-1933
Selected bibliography
Index
