Some Desperate Glory (36 page)

Thomas, Helen (
née
Noble)

Thomas, Mervyn

Thompson, Francis

Times, The
: poetry in; prints Grenfell's letters; reviews Brooke poems; publishes Grenfell's ‘Into Battle'; publishes Sassoon's ‘To Victory'

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Toynbee, Philip

trenches: named

Turkey: successes against British; and Dardanelles campaign; Allenby's victories against

 

U-boats: threat to supply

United States of America: enters war

 

Vachell, Horace:
The Hill

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Verdun, battle of (1916)

Versailles, treaty of (1919)

Vigny, Alfred de

Vimy Ridge

Vlamertinge

 

Wells, H. G.: Sassoon meets; Owen meets; caricatures Marsh;
Men Like Gods
;
Mr Britling Sees It Through

Westminster Gazette

Wheels
(journal)

Whitechapel

Wilde, Oscar

William II, Emperor of Germany

Winchester College

women: demand vote

Woolf, Leonard

Woolf, Virginia;
Jacob's Room

Wordsworth, William

 

Yeats, William Butler: xi; (ed.)
The Oxford Book of Modern Verse

Ypres: 1st battle of (1914); ruined; Blunden moved to; 3rd battle of (Passchendaele, 1917)

Yser, River

 

Zimmermann telegram

Rupert Brooke. Virginia Woolf thought him beautiful and ‘the most restless, complex and analytic of human beings'.

Julian (
centre inset and left
) and Billy Grenfell (
right
) with their mother, Lady Desborough. Julian Grenfell thought ‘one loves one's fellow man so much more when one is bent on killing him.'

The Royal Naval Division ready for the Dardanelles. Rupert Brooke is in the middle row, second from the left.

Siegfried Sassoon. He thought courage was ‘the only thing that mattered' in war.

Charles Sorley. Although an admirer of Germany and its culture, Sorley joined up promptly in 1914, declaring that ‘since getting a commission I have become a terror'.

Rugby chapel. The public schools instilled a belief in the nobility of patriotic sacrifice.

Isaac Rosenberg. ‘Death does not conquer me, I conquer death, I am the master.'

Jewish Whitechapel: the market in Goulston Street, near where Rosenberg grew up.

Ivor Gurney. He felt intensely moved by the comradeship that he found on the western front.

Edward Thomas. ‘I was born to be a ghost.'

Ivor Gurney's ‘noble and golden' Gloucestershire.