War related resources

The final unit of the A LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE course, UNIT 6, deals with texts related to war.

Below is some information, which is essential to your success in that unit.

Useful Web Sites

Oxford University First World War site

First World War gateway to a range of sites

Lost Poets of the Great War

Steve Brown a teacher’s own site

English Online useful links from the Wilfred Owen unit, talk boards on the new exams and other resources

CD-ROM

Over the Nightmare Ground: British Poetry from two World Wars - Headstrong Interactive

BOOKS

Adrian Barlow: The Great War in British Literature, 0UP

Cardinal, Goldman, Hattaway: Women's Writing on the First World W ar, OUP

English Review. Volume 9, issue 3, February 1999

Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory, OUP

Owen's poems and letters (see introductions to editions of his poems)

Silkin (ed): Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

Giddings: The War Poets, Bloomsbury (with useful historical background)

Christopher Martin: War Poems, Collins Educational

Gardner : Up the Line to Death, Methuen

Catherine W. Reilly (ed) Scars Upon My Heart Womens - Poetry of the First World War , Virago

Joyce Marlow (ed): The Virago Book of Women and the Great War

Stallworthy: The Oxford Book of War Poetry , OUP

Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (novel, 1929, or film)

Helena Zenna Smith: Not So Quiet, Virago (a novel from 1930 based on the wartime diary of a VAD)

Vera Britain: Testament of Youth

Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge (eds): Letters from a Lost Generation -First World War Letters of Vera Britain and Four Friends, Little, Brown & Company

J Lewis: True World War One Stories

Sassoon: Memoirs of Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston  s Progress (also available as The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston), Faber

Graves : Goodbye to All That (1929)

Littlewood/Theatre Workshop: Oh What a Lovely War! (1967)

Hill: Strange Meeting

Barker: Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road

Faulks: Birdsong

Macdonald: The Somme , Penguin

Frank McGuiness: Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme , Faber

OTHER RESOURCES

Remembrance Day, war memorials, newspaper extract, etc

The History Channel

Imperial War Museum

Battlefield visits (some firms specialise in this area, such as Galina

Relevant films

Additional Recommended Reading

On the Beach - Shute

Fallen Angels - Greg

Faber Book of War Poetry

EMag

English Review

www.worldwar1 .com

Liverpool Community College website

Women of the Great War -Virago

Accrington Pals - Whelan 0573110093

In Pharaoh’s Army - Tobias Wolf

Forgotten Voices of the Great War - 0091882095

To the Green Fields and Beyond - Whitby

Heartbreak House - G.B. Shaw

Services Rendered - Somerset Maugham