Fiction and Memoir of Britain’s Great War: Some further thoughts

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Notes

1. L. Mairet, Carnet d’un combattent (1919), quoted in Audoin-Rouzeau and Becker, 14–18: Understanding the Great War, 37.

2. Lindert, Princes of the Trenches, 47.

3. Fussell, The Great War and Popular Memory; Hynes, A War Imagined, 158.

4. It is based on the notion that the working self is characterised by conservatism because goal change has high costs in cognitive and emotional terms and is potentially destabilising. For a fuller discussion see Taylor, Memory, Narrative and the Great War, chapter 2.

5. For Urwick see Roper, “Re-remembering the Soldier Hero,” 181–204 and for MacGill see Taylor, Memory, Narrative, Part II.