#also thinking about how carrington and marryat are both patriotic british veterans

[clove-pinks]

Tired and drained, but I'm reading Charles Carrington again and having weird nostalgia feelings about it since it's been 20 years since my first First World War phase. Back in the day I read Soldier from the Wars Returning (1965), and also Carrington's 1929 memoir A Subaltern's War. My memories are intertwined with thoughts of the charming library in my home town (and Rhode Island's superior public library system); and I wish I could remember who wrote the interesting book about Vimy Ridge.

I was reading Carrington in pre-YouTube days, and it's wild to find television interviews with him. He lived until 1990! I love his "voice" in his books, and his actual speaking voice is also out there. I didn't quite appreciate this before, but Carrington is pretty much the Opposite of the sad gay poets with complicated feelings about nationalism, as WWI veterans go, and his memoir is one endless pacifists DNI, The Boche DNI, historians who don't like Douglas Haig DNI,