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Suggestions for Further Reading
The following is a selective list of some of the books that inspired me as I was writing Somewhere in France. I have also included a brief list of websites that I found both reliable and informative.
Nonfiction:
The First World War by Stuart Robson
Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War, edited by Margaret Higonnet
The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm by Juliet Nicolson
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins
The Roses of No Man’s Land by Lyn Macdonald
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History by Jay Winter
Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907–1948 by Lucy Noakes
Memoir:
The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898–2009 by Harry Patch
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
The War Diary of Clare Gass: 1915–1918 by Clare Gass
Poetry:
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Collected Poems, 1908–1956 by Siegfried Sassoon
Scars Upon My Heart: Women’s Poetry and Verse of the First World War, edited by Catherine Reilly
Fiction:
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road) by Pat Barker
The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
The Wars by Timothy Findley
Websites:
The Long, Long Trail www.1914-1918.net
The Great War Archive www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa
The Last Tommy www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/last_tommy_gallery.shtml
The Great War www.greatwar.co.uk
This Intrepid Band greatwarnurses.blogspot.com
The Western Front Association www.westernfrontassociation.com
Edwardian Promenade www.edwardianpromenade.com
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Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa
Cover photograph © 2013 by Richard Jenkins
Map by Sam (The Mad Cartographer) Onderdonk
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Robson, Jennifer, 1970–
Somewhere in France / Jennifer Robson. — First edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-06-227345-1
1. Social classes—Fiction. 2. World War, 1914–1918—Fiction. 3. Historical fiction. I. Title.
PR9199.4.R634S66 2014
813’.6—dc23
2013016915
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