Meeting the Enemy (54 page)

A lifelong friendship. In the 1950s, former artillery driver Alfred Henn and his wife (right) pose with the family of a German soldier with whom he became friends during the occupation. They remained in contact until the late 1990s.

The author’s grandmother, Margarethe van Emden, née Berndt (centre), studying at Leipzig University around 1924. Behind her stands Ernst Jünger, the highly decorated former German infantry officer and author of
Storm of Steel
. Margarethe moved to England in the 1930s where she remained for the rest of her life.

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Orders are Orders: A Manchester Pal on the Somme
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In Happy Memory
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A Fatalist at War
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The Advance from Mons
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An English Wife in Berlin
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Malaula! The Battle Cry of Jasta 17
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I Survived Didn’t I?
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A Passionate Prodigality
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To Hell and Back with the Guards
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Unpublished Memoirs

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An Englishman’s Life

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Memories of an Old Contemptible

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Bournemouth Guardian
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East London Observer
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Manchester Guardian
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online
27 June 1904: King George’s visit to Kiel; 6 August 1914: Florence Phillips; 8 August 1914: Bampfylde Fuller; 26 December 1914: Hensley Henson; 26 December 1914: Reverend Henry Woods; 12 May 1915: Sir Felix Semon, Sir Carl Meyer and Leopold Hirsch; 7 July 1916: Jellicoe’s Despatch; 8 March 1918: Lord Newton’s speech to the House of Lords; 12 July 1918: Sir George Cave and Brigadier Page Croft; 2 November 1918: Udo Willmore-Wittner

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The New Chequers
, magazine of the Friends of Lochnagar

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The Oak Leaf
, date unknown

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The Beam
, December 1969

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Brown, Malcolm & Seaton, Shirley,
Christmas Truce
, Papermac, 1994

Holmes, Richard,
Tommy
:
The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914
-
1918
, Harper Collins, 2004

Housman, Laurence,
War Letters of Fallen Englishmen
, Victor Gollancz, 1930 (incl. letters of Captain Edward Hulse and Lt Colonel John Hawksley)