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Wyndham Lewis in the Royal Artillery Garrison, 1916-1917: Part 2, Active Service

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This article re-examines the twenty-one months that Wyndham Lewis, the modernist artist and writer, spent with the British army’s heavy artillery during the First World War. Using fresh contextual sources, including a previously unknown diary kept by one of his colleagues, it reconstructs his time in the gunners to an unprecedented depth. In so doing, it brings a military historical perspective to our understanding of Lewis’s home and active service. The findings change our understanding of him as a soldier and adjust significantly the image projected in his reminiscences. This is part two of two, with focus on active service at the front.

Source: NECTAR - Northampton Electronic Collection of Thesis and Research (University of Northampton)

Authors: Beach, Jim, Rosenquist, Rod

Institution: Yale University

Language: English

Topic: World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7143273196

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