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A STRONG ELEVEN

... a fine record as active soldier and pioneer of army education, and a plan of operations for the 1th Division in the Battle of the Somme. Clearly, then, the material to his hand dictated the form of his book and the title he chose only very loosely welds ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

A Lost Poet

... phases in the war. The writer, who was third and youngest son of the Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, fell in the battle of the Somme, July 1. 1916. That he would have made, had he lived, a name of note in the world of poetry cannot be doubted by anyone ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 306 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

GEORGE ORWELL: by his friend, Sir Richard Rees

... brevity and certainly because of its sensitivity, is a memorable and delightful book. Of all. the insane folly of war the Battle of the Somme has few counterparts in respect of the mass butchery involved for no territorial reward or strategical gain of any ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 691 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

LITERATURE: Some New Books: In the Midlands

... phases in the war. The writer, who was third and youngest son of the Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich/fell in the battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916. That he would have made, had he lived, a name of note in the world of poetry cannot be doubted by anyone ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1359 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

LITERATURE OF THE WEEK: Some New Books: A Dorset Story

... A Vivid Story of the Somme A ttack, by Edward Liveing (Heinemann). This small book appeared originally in the form of an article in Blackwood' s Magazine. It tells the story of the opening day of the great battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916, as it was ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1919
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1279 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

DRAMA

... a hospital ward he is a man of forty-one who remembers nothing after the previous shock of a wound received in the Battle of the Somme seventeen years previously. His mentality slips back to its development at the age of twenty-four, and the intervening ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1935
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2194 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

The World of Books: Pamela Bourne Recounts Her Adventures Before the Mast: Cutcliffe Hyne Writes a Self ..

... soldier attempting to carry on with a pack of politicians snarling for ever at his heels. This volume ends with the Battle of the Somme. Its opinions are as clear and decisive as the character of its subject. The politicians have had their say Haig still ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1935
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1996 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS: Mr. Fisher on James Bryce: Russia Again: Genial Humour and Scathing Wit: A Literary Frankenstein

... difficult man to popularise. There is quoted a letter written by him while on the visit he paid to the Front, during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. It reveals a steadiness and adaptability most remarkable in a man of his age. It also reveals an impersonality ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1927
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2191 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review