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This book is a journey of discovery as Matthew Mills Stevenson, affectionately known as the Cycling Historian, investigates the people, the places and the poetry that define how we remember the First World War.
Stevenson's reading, begun by the fireplace in the darkness of a Swiss winter, hinted at the extraordinary network of friendship that connected so many of the writers of that time. Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves served in the same regiment. Wilfred Owen spent time with Sassoon recuperating in Craiglockhart, a Scottish hospital. Winston Churchill shared friendships with T. E. Lawrence, Sassoon, Thomas Hardy and Erskine Childers. John Buchan, author of Greenmantle, admired Lawrence. And a constant presence in their lives is Churchill's private secretary, Edward Marsh.
When spring came Stevenson decided that these men would only come alive for him if he visited the places where they had lived or fought in the war. So, with his faithful folding Brompton bicycle, he set off to unlock a literary puzzle.
Contents
I. T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
Wool, England
Clouds Hill: At home with Aircraftman Shaw
Bovington: Lawrence's last ride
Moreton: Across Thomas Hardy's Egdon Heath
Lawrence: A prince of our disorder
To Arabia: The young Lawrence
Seven pillars of Hollywood
Wessex Tales: On the Bike
Hardy's Dorchester: The return of the outsider
II. Siegfried Sassoon Rides to the Guns
The Train to Frome
Mells: The great war in modern memory
Weirleigh and the Weald of Kent: To the hounds
The Unquiet Western Front: Siegfried's Journey
Heytesbury's Sassoon: A country gentleman
Sassoon and Lawrence: Postwar friends
Warminster: Transporting memoirs
III. Graves: Hello to All That
Sassoon and Robert Graves
Robert Graves at Charterhouse
Graves, Lawrence and Rory Stewart
IV. Across the Lawrence Desert in Saudi Arabia
The Legend Grows in Aqaba
A Theoretical Route into Saudi Arabia
The Wadi Rum Stage Set
A Frozen Desert Border
The Hejaz City of Tabuk
The Closely-Watched Bus to Medina
A High-Speed Has
Seaside Jeddah on the Red Sea
A Lawrence Cruise to Yenbo
A 1921 Cairo Conference Imagines Lines in the Sand
V. The John Buchan Way
Oxford: Unravelling Lord Tweedsmuir
Buchan After the Great War
Elsfield Manor, Oxford: At home with the novelist
Peebles, Scotland: Tramping with Richard Hannay
Buchan and John F. Kennedy: Kindred spirits
VI. Heart of Joseph Conrad
Along the River Thames
Sailing Toward Poland
Canterbury Tales
Conrad and Lawrence: Confluent shipwrecks
VII. The Riddles of Erskine Childers
Dublin
England at Sea: Childers issues a warning
Childers: The making of Irish rebels
VIII. Winston Churchill in the Trenches
Plugstreet
The 1914 Christmas Truce
Messines: Ireland on the Western Front
IX. Graves and Sassoon on the Western Front
Some Desperate Glory
Lions Led by Donkeys
The Black Hole of Loos
Arras: A Forlorn Plan of Attack
Craiglockhart War Hospital: The battle for Sassoon's soul
The man who shot Sassoon
Belfast on the Somme
The Somme's Thiepval Monument: Site of mourning
Graves and Sassoon: Once More to Mametz Wood
Albert and the Road to Corbie
X. Wilfred Owen's Long Road
Coming of Age Near Liverpool
Owen's Childhood: Woodside, Birkenhead, Shrewsbury
The Making of a Modern Poet
Owen Enlists
XI. Raymond Asquith, Friend to Many
Echoes of War; in Amiens Cathedral
The British High Command at Chateau Querrieu
The Red Baron Falls to Earth
War Box Seats: Bois Francais above the Somme
The Death of Raymond Asquith
A Dark Ride Toward the Hindenburg Line
XII. Wilfred Owen: The Last Footsteps
The American Cut Grass at Bellicourt
Joncourt: Owen's Military Cross
Beaurevoir to the Maison Forestiere Owen
The Long Shadows Over the Sambre-Oise Canal
An Owen Farewell
XIII. Rupert Brooke, Lady Ottoline Morrell, and Sir Edward
Marsh: Defining the War
On the Road to Birmingham and Coventry
Remembering Rupert Brooke
At Rugby School
Back to Oxford and Garsington Manor
Lady Ottoline Morrell's Drawing Rooms
Sir Edward Marsh's Many Degrees of Connection
Grantchester: Byronic Summer Days
Gallipoli and the Distant Echoes of Troy
XIV. The Last Post
War's End on Skyros
Acknowledgements
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The Cycling Historian
About the Bicycle
Index
