Briffault's Passchendaele
Subtitle: arts, empathy, and the First World War
By: Phil McCray
Publisher: Rudi Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780945213321; 9780945213345; 9780945213369
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Campaigns; Ypres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917; Art and the war; Literature and the war; Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918; Campagnes et batailles; 3e bataille d'Ypres, Ypres, Belgique, 1917; Military campaigns
Description: "Briffault's Passchendaele surveys the First World War from the perspective of the Modernist artists and writers caught up in its madness. The scene is observed by a battlefield medical officer turned novelist, and considered from the vantage point of our own times. Various genres of sympathy illuminate the wide range of transformations the war imposed on our Modern era"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: "Biographical notes, history, bibliography, correspondence transcripts, verse play, and meditation on the Great War, 1914-1918"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208).
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Truculent scholarship; title: The scripts of hell; title: The ghosts' bibliography; title: From the archives; title: Night thoughts of a World War I medical officer; title: trobar clus; title: Images.