Later, it is stated that in a similar raid, after the British artillery bombardment, the Germans had tied red rag to the gaps in the barbed wire so that their soldiers knew exactly where to train their machine guns. If you enjoyed Journey's End, you might like Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That, available in Penguin Modern Classics. Stanhope is such a complicated character—he’s presented as likable and yet he’s morally gray and hypocritical and brash—but all in a painfully human way.

Sometimes you have to read something funny or say something humorous to kill the boredom and drabness of war or as an escape from reality. I have used, or have at least seen all of these used as coping strategies to face obstacles, and I felt it really gave the play an element of realism that a lot of media dealing with war doesn’t really get into enough. Lost from the BBC archives for over 40 years, these rediscovered episodes are presented on CD for the very first time. If we are to believe numerous accounts the stiff upper lip prevailed and the language of the time; rugger, chap, topping, jolly introduced a surreal quality to this living hell.There were further London revivals in 1950 [7] (which won enthusiastic praise from Field Marshal Montgomery) [8] and 1972. Rare dustjacket has large chip at top of spine (does not affect title), long repaired tear, other chipping and edgewear.

It's a beautiful part for an actor, in a play that's wonderfully lean and controlled – a claustrophobic, tense study of combat trauma in three efficient acts. When reading this play, you have a pretty good idea of where it is heading, but I don't think that makes it any easier to read. The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. The luck also rubbed off on Victor Gollancz, for whom the text was a first major publishing coup, selling 175,000 copies.He figures that Stanhope will be happy to see a familiar face; instead, he’s enraged that Raleigh would intrude on his life.