Lord Dunsany brings his lucid and magical prose to the subject of the harsh realities of war by providing a series of vignettes that are at times grim and grounded but also at times eerie and fantastical. Summary by Ben Tucker.
Chapters
1 The Prayer of the Men of Daleswood 13 min 2 The Road 5 min 3 An Imperial Monument 5 min 4 A Walk to the Trenches 5 min 5 A Walk in Picardy 5 min 6 What Happened on the Night of the Twenty-Seventh 6 min 7 Standing To 3 min 8 The Splendid Traveller 8 min 9 Shells 5 min 10 Two Degrees of Envy 4 min 11 The Master of No Man's Land 3 min 12 Weeds and Wire 4 min 13 Spring in England and Flanders 4 min 14 The Nightmare Countries 5 min 15 Spring and the Kaiser 3 min 16 Two Songs 3 min 17 The Punishment 8 min 18 The English Spirit 6 min 19 An Investigation Into the Causes and Origin of the War 7 min 20 Lost 4 min 21 The Last Mirage 5 min 22 A Famous Man 5 min 23 The Oases of Death 2 min 24 Anglo-Saxon Tyranny 5 min 25 Memories 5 min 26 The Movement 6 min 27 Nature's Cad 6 min 28 The Home of Herr Schnitzelhaaser 7 min 29 A Deed of Mercy 4 min 30 Last Scene of All 4 min 31 Old England 5 min
