Popular disenchantment: the War Books Boom, 1928–1930

8 Richard Aldington, Images of War (1919) and Death of a Hero (1929)

“…While it has often been claimed that there was a ten-year gap to prose writing about the war, this was not the case; war memoirs, essays and novels were published throughout the post-war decade. However, the questioning and 1 Unless otherwise indicated, page references in brackets with the abbreviation IW refer to Aldington 1919. critical mode of writing which we now associate most strongly with the war had yet to achieve popular acceptance (Frayn 2014).…”