After living with seventeen toy bears for some time, a strange doll who has never spoken reveals an amazing secret.

The surprise bear

Cecil, Hugh.

Walker Books

World War I inspired hundreds of novels by British men and women who survived it. Most, even the best-sellers, are now forgotten. This book unearths the lives and works of a dozen of these writers, describing the events in the war which scarred their lives and inspired their books. Some, like Richard Aldington, author of "Death of a Hero", achieved a lasting reputation, others, like Ronald Gurner, who wrote "Pass Guard at Ypres", killed themselves. Over them all, the "Flower of Battle", one writer's symbol for the experience of war, cast its shadow for the rest of their lives.

The Flower of Battle

Literature & Fiction

Secker & Warburg, 1995

A biography of two figures at the centre of 20th century English literary life for nearly 50 years. Desmond MacCarthy was famous as drama and literary critic of "New Statesman" and "The Sunday Times" and his friends included Henry James and Bertrand Russell. Hugh Cecil is MacCarthy's grandson.

Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy : A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

CECIL, Mirabel

Professionals & Academics

Victor Gollancz

A biography of two figures at the centre of 20th century English literary life for nearly 50 years. Desmond MacCarthy was famous as drama and literary critic of "New Statesman" and "The Sunday Times" and his friends included Henry James and Bertrand Russell. Hugh Cecil is MacCarthy's grandson.

Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly Maccarthy : A Biography

Pub Overstock Unlimited Inc

Whistler at Mottisfont

National Trust

Rex Whistler was one of the most intriguing artists of the interwar years. His career lasted only from 1925 until his tragically early death in the Second World War, when he was thirty-nine. But in those two decades he established himself as an artist in many different fields, and especially as the outstanding mural painter of the period. His first big mural, painted while he was still a student at the Slade School of Art, was for the Tate Gallery restaurant. He went on to paint many others, including those at Port Lympne in Kent, Dorneywood in Buckinghamshire and - his masterpiece - Plas Newydd on the Isle of Anglesey. He was also an acclaimed portrait painter, of people and of their houses. He designed sets for opera, the theatre and ballet (most famously Fidelio at Covent Garden, Victoria Regina on Broadway and the Royal Ballet's Rake's Progress), illustrations and book jackets for over a hundred books, numerous advertisements, greetings telegrams for the Post Office and even a toile de jouy that is still in production to this day. Among his most memorable portraits are those of the beautiful Lady Caroline Paget, the love of his life. Amidst all this, he found time to sparkle as one of the wittiest and most elegant of the 'bright young things'; until, at the outbreak of war, he joined the Welsh Guards and was transformed into a dedicated and outstandingly courageous tank troop commander in the Guards Armoured Division. He was killed by a mortar bomb blast in Normandy on 18 July 1944. Although Rex Whistler's reputation stand high today and his work is avidly collected, much of it is in private hands and so comparatively little known. The authors, Hugh and Mirabel Cecil, have tracked down all of his murals, in private collections and on public display. They have traced his later dramatic portraits and war art painted while he was in the army and have been given access to many unpublished sources, both letters and the memories of his many devoted friends.

In Search of Rex Whistler: His Life & His Work

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Frances Lincoln Ltd.

Facing Armageddon is the first scholarly work on the 1914-18 War to explore, on a worldwide basis, the real nature of the participants' experience. Sixty-four scholars from all over the globe, including the USA, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, Holland and the UK, deliver the fruits of recent on what civilians and servicemen passed through, in the air, on the sea and on land. Looking back from the final decade of the 20th century, we can see clearly how the First World War has shaped the fundamental character of our century. The Second World War and the Cold War were among its direct, long term consequences. Without an awareness of its effects on the individuals and societies involved, perceptible even now, we cannot fully comprehend the modern world.Eighty years after the first day on the Somme, when no fewer than 57,000 British soldiers were killed, wounded or missing, there are still men and women alive, including a handful of actual combatants, who can remember the war. Even now, anyone who visits Ypres, Thiepval or Verdun feels the immensity of that terrible ordeal. Facing Armageddon, lucidly written and vividly illustrated, is aimed at those, specialist, student and general readers alike, who seek a deeper understanding of human conflict in our times.

Facing Armaggedon: The First World War Experienced

History

Military

Combined Books

This monumental work presents the most recent findings of 64 outstanding scholars; the most significant book on World War I in many years.

FACING ARMAGEDDON: The first World War Experiences (Pen & Sword Paperback)

Liddle, Peter

Pen and Sword Select

Unsurpassed, perhaps unsurpassable, a catalogue of the lives of the British male at war and writing about being at war. --The Times Literary Supplement

The Flower of Battle: How Britain Wrote the Great War

British & Irish

Steerforth Pr

Love and War describes the sources of inspiration artist Rex Whistler drew on during the years—immediately before his tragic early death in battle—for his work as a portrait painter, and as a designer of theater sets and costumes, of books and of advertisements, and above all, as the outstanding mural painter of the interwar years.

Love and War (Rex Whistler: Inspirations)

Arts & Literature

Pimpernel Press

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