Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. The Tears of War. Editor Fyfe, Charlotte, Cavalier Books, 2000.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Despard | CD
's younger brother, later Sir John French
, had a high-profile military career. He became a Field Marshal in 1913 and commander of the British Expeditionary Force
in Europe at the start of the... |
politics | Charlotte Despard | The outbreak of the First World War added pacifism to CD
's political causes (although her brother, now Sir John French
, was Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force
), along with concern about how... |
Textual Features | Jan Struther | The film (conceived as a means of raising American enthusiasm for the war) made radical, structural changes to the book. Mrs Miniver retained her husband and children, and plans to foreground the male characters instead... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Jane Howard | The central character of Howard's novel, Julius Grace, responded to the call of public duty when, at the news on about 27 May 1940 that the retreating British Expeditionary Force
was stranded at Dunkirk... |
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