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No more parades No more parades Ford Madox Ford Captain Christopher Tietjens endures cold, mud and air-raids in a French base camp, preoccupied with his crumbling marriage, and battling not the German forces but the nightmare bureaucracy of the Br… OL18481779W
The last post The last post Ford Madox Ford "Surrounded by the jubilation of Armistice Day, Valentine Wannop receives a telephone call which brings alarming news of her dear friend Christopher Tietjens. For whilst she strains to hear against t… OL18528483W
A Man Could Stand Up— A Man Could Stand Up— Ford Madox Ford <p><i>A Man Could Stand Up—</i> opens on Armistice Day, with Valentine Wannop learning that her love, Christopher Tietjens, has returned to London from the front. As she prepares to meet him, the nar… OL27292191W
Some Do Not … Some Do Not … Ford Madox Ford <p><i>Some Do Not …</i> opens at the cusp of World War I. Christopher Tietjens, a government statistician, and his friend Vincent Macmaster, an aspiring literary critic, are visiting the English coun… OL27292370W
The Good Soldier The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy - or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy an… OL509889W