Passchendaele
She lived frantically ever after: the jaw-dropping life of Barbara Cartland
Most people’s lives contain vast swathes of boredom but not Cartland’s. Every page of this biography is a cliff-hanger: pistols are forever going off, legs are amputated, proposals are made at gunpoint and suicides are two a penny
Longing for oblivion: The Warm Hands of Ghosts, by Katherine Arden, reviewed
Arden’s novel spares us no details of trench warfare on the Western Front and the severely traumatised men dreaming of escape into amnesia
‘I don’t know how ever Jerry stands it’: diary of a world war one artillery man
My sister’s boyfriend is a solitary man and easily overwhelmed by another’s presence. On his rare visits he flits in…
