Silent Morning

Trudi Tate is a Fellow of Clare Hall and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of CambridgeKate Kennedy is a Research Fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge

One thing is certain: among the thousands of books published to mark the centenary of the Great War, there will be few, if any, which examine the immediate aftermath of the fighting as originally, incisively and movingly as the collections of essays in 'The Silent Morning'.

• Introduction: ‘This grave day’ – Trudi Tate and Kate Kennedy1. The parting of the ways: The Armistice, the Silence and Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s end – John Pegum2. Alfred Döblin’s November 1918: The Alsatian prelude – Klaus Hofmann3. ‘A strange mood’: British popular fiction and post-war uncertainties – George Simmers4. Fighting the peace: Two women's accounts of the post-war years – Alison Hennegan5. King Baby: Infant care into the peace – Trudi Tate6. ‘What a victory it might have been’: C. E. Montague and the First World War – Andrew Frayn7. The Bookman, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Armistice – Jane Potter8. ‘Misunderstood ... mainly because of my Jewishness’: Arthur Schnitzler after the First World War – Max Haberich9. Leaping over shadows: Ernst Krenek and post-war Vienna – Peter Tregear10. Silence recalled in sound: British classical music and the Armistice – Kate Kennedy11. Sacrifice defeated: The Armistice and depictions of victimhood in German women’s art 1918–24 – Claudia Siebrecht12. ‘Remembering, we forget’: British art at the Armistice – Michael Walsh13. Indecisive victory? : German and British soldiers at the Armistice – Alexander Watson14. Mixing memory and desire: British and German war memorials after 1918 – Adrian BarlowBibliographyNotes on contributorsIndex