ALWYN TURNER on a home-front comedy from the Great War. Continue reading
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Tag Archives: First World War
Imperial fiction: Penny Plain
ALWYN TURNER on a 1920 novel by Anna Buchan, aka O. Douglas. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Huntingtower
Is this 1922 novel John Buchan’s best thriller? ALWYN TURNER thinks so. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Lower than Vermin
ALWYN TURNER on Dornford Yates (beloved of both Michael Gove and Mark Gatiss) and his 1950 novel of lost England. Continue reading
The Great Silence
ALWYN TURNER tells the story of the first commemoration of Armistice Day in 1919. Continue reading
‘Plainly nuts’: A press portrait of Paul Nuttall
ALWYN TURNER looks at the career of Nigel Farage’s successor as UKIP leader. Continue reading
‘A wreath of poppies’
ALWYN TURNER on the early days of the British Legion’s Poppy. Continue reading
